From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 15:29:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2333616A4A0 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:29:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8830D43D6A for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:29:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.107]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7R0018L1OANDB0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:28:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7R0057K1O8M2C1@pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:28:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J7R00IUM1O81O92@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:28:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 1366 invoked from network); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:27:56 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:27:56 +0000 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:27:56 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: To: Paul Schmehl Message-id: <4540D3FC.2080701@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <453FEAB3.9030409@bigfoot.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update vs. make buildworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:29:53 -0000 Paul Schmehl wrote: > I use > both methods; freebsd-update when I'm using a GENERIC kernel with no > changes and the traditional method when the source has been altered, the > kernel is customized or the processor is not supported under > freebsd-update. FWIW, the version of FreeBSD Update which is now in the base system (starting with 6.2-BETA1) supports upgrading the world, kernel, and source code separately, so on systems with custom kernel configurations you'll be able to use FreeBSD Update to update the world + source code and then only rebuild the kernel. Colin Percival