--On January 2, 2013 6:45:50 PM +0100 andreas scherrer
<ascher...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
This can be considered a follow up to the message "How to keep
freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?" sent to this list by Brett
Glass on August 13th 2012 (see [1]). Unfortunately there is no solution
to the problem in that thread (or I cannot see it).
I am running currently running 9.0-RELEASE-p4 and freebsd-update
recommends to update to p5. It states:
-----
The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.0-RELEASE-p5:
/boot/kernel/kernel
<snip>
-----
And from experience this is what it will do: replace /boot/kernel/kernel
which is my custom kernel with a GENERIC kernel.
As it seems that freebsd-update works by comparing a hash of
/boot/kernel/kernel with the GENERIC kernel's hash I checked the md5 and
sha1 hash of /boot/kernel/kernel and /boot/GENERIC/kernel. They differ
(see [3]).
So why is freebsd-update going to overwrite my custom kernel? And how
can I prevent it from doing so?
Read man (5) freebsd-update.conf. Particularly the COMPONENTS portion that
explains how to update world without changing kernel.
--
Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
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