Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:10:34 -0500 From: Tom Carpenter <tomc@bio.umass.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4 Message-ID: <4EC6C9CA.1010105@bio.umass.edu> In-Reply-To: <4EC6C506.2090206@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <005301cca2b7$add11f20$09735d60$@co.ke> <4EC13877.3070704@bio.umass.edu> <4EC6BC2F.5030907@bio.umass.edu> <4EC6C506.2090206@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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So, I've run freebsd-update fetch/install a few times since I posed my original question, but my system remains at 8.2-RELEASE-p3. Have I done all that I should to get word to those that would be able to correct the problem? Is there communication channel I should use to report this? On 11/18/2011 03:50 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 18/11/2011 20:12, Tom Carpenter wrote: >> Is it not possible/not intended for kernels to be updated via >> freebsd-update? If kernels can be updated via freebsd-update >> will there be a release of an fix/update that will allow systems >> to be patched/updated to -p4 or later? > freebsd-update will certainly update your kernel for you, so long as you > are using a standard GENERIC kernel from the install media or from a > previous freebsd-update iteration. > > If you compile your own kernel, then freebsd-update will patch the > kernel sources, but leave you to rebuild and reinstall your customized > kernel. > > I don't know about the -p4 update. By rights it should have involved > updating the kernel by one or other of the two methods shown. So far > however, we've seen two reports questioning that[*] and none saying that > the -p4 update did in fact update the kernel. Which is suspicious, but > hardly conclusive. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > [*] Stranger things have happened than admins compiling their own > GENERIC kernels and then mistakenly thinking they were actually using > the standard one from the install media[+]. Seeing a positive "it > updated for me" would settle the question definitively. > > [+] Not that I believe for one minute that anyone in this thread is > sufferring from that sort of memory lapse. >
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