Thank you, Polytropon. I have (as far as I can tell) successfully upgraded to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 now. For this I moved /usr/src (SVN) out of the way and followed the upgrade process described in "25.2.3.2 Performing the Upgrade" in the Handbook [1].
on 17.4.13 22:55 Polytropon said the following: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:37:06 +0200, andreas scherrer wrote: >> For some reason I was under the impression that /usr/src/sys is not >> being updated by freebsd-update if I remove "kernel" from the >> "Components" directive in freebsd-update.conf. But I might be wrong (I >> will check). > > According to the documentation, /usr/src (and therefor the > /usr/src/sys subtree) is part of the "src" component, not > of "kernel", so it should be updated properly. OK. I will check if my /usr/src(/sys) ever changes now. I too think it should. >> Maybe related to this: how does freebsd-update "know" what >> sources/binaries to get when I don't use the "-r" switch? Does it rely >> on /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh? That would still interest me (also see below). > By following -RELEASE, freebsd-update will "apply _that_ snapshot > of the source tree and the prebuild world and kernel at the > revision when X.Y-RELEASE-pZ has been verified", sloppily said. > So it basically doesn't matter what sources you have on your > machine (or even if you have any sources) as long as you're not > going to compile anything. But because this is a requirement in > your specific setting, freebsd-update will take care of that by > having the "src" component on its list. So how would I "follow -RELEASE". Or how does freebsd-update what I want to follow (see above)? I don't want to, so this is an academic question... And something else is bugging me: Is there a way I can contact "someone" (Tom Rhodes?) about the outdated freebsd-update documentation (concerning the custom kernel handling) in the Handbook ("FreeBSD Update" [2])? Colin Percival's email is in the man page, would that be the way to go? The Handbook states that Tom Rhodes wrote the freebsd-update section but does not reveal an email address... Kind regards andreas [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"