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Date:      Sat, 20 Mar 2021 21:57:23 -0500
From:      Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
To:        Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Adding /usr/src using freebsd-update
Message-ID:  <C9106636-5731-4061-9F99-8FFFD5BD0E6D@kicp.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2103201838170.62610@bucksport.safeport.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.2103201838170.62610@bucksport.safeport.com>

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> On Mar 20, 2021, at 9:42 PM, Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> wrote:
>=20
> My motivation for wanting to do this is basically because updating =
11.3-->12.2 broke my Lenovo Ideapad. This is a "well known" and =
apparently has a workaround but I could not find a combination that =
worked following the very helpful suggestion out of the X11 mailing list =
or google. What did work was 13.0-RC2. Out of the box following UPDATING =
and pkg notes. Whatever the issue was it was obviously complex involving =
the interaction of several components in Xorg, FreeBSD and whether or =
nor EFI booting was used. All except the last one are perfectly obvious. =
I only mention this as background for why not use git or subversion (for =
a while anyway).
>=20
> The fix required that kernel sources be available. On the Lenovo that =
happened not to be a problem. On another laptop I did not have /usr/src =
so freebsd-update did not add/update it and I saw no option to add =
/usr/src. The conf file apparently says take care of it if it is there.

Did you try to use svn? Something in lines

svn co https://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/12.2 /usr/src

(confessing: I=E2=80=99m lazy guy, and about a week or so ago I still =
used svn, successfully).

> On my HP no /usr/src. I did a package add for git adding 32 required =
packages and the installed failed to deliver a working git command. So =
on to subversion with similar results. This with 12.2.
>=20
> As I had already updated to 12.2 and it was working I removed all =
packages, copied a 12.1 /usr/src from another server and did a fetch. =
This added in the files new to 12.2 and did report doing anything else, =
so I rather doubt this is a "good" version of the src tree.
>=20
> All of the above for my real question. since I had a number of 11.3 =
/usr/src trees, if I had just added that before doing an upgrade I think =
that will work. Correct?
>=20

I would just move existing /usr/src off the way (rename) and pull fresh =
new of the release you need (say, using svn command if git doesn=E2=80=99t=
 work on that machine for whatever reason).

Valeri

>=20
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