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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:43:39 +1030
From:      Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz>
To:        Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel build error (9.2 on 9.1 userland)
Message-ID:  <528C6123.1010304@ShaneWare.Biz>
In-Reply-To: <20131119200931.GE13289@blisses.org>
References:  <20131119200931.GE13289@blisses.org>

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On 20/11/2013 06:39, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> Hi there! I'm not an experienced FreeBSD user yet, but I'm interested in
> doing more with it.
> 
> I've got a FreeBSD 9.1 system that I've been updating with freebsd-update,
> but since I use a custom kernel (it's a Xen PV domU) I've been building my
> kernel separately. It just occurred to me that freebsd-update doesn't likely
> touch my /usr/src. So, today I updated /usr/src to base/stable/9 and tried to
> build, but my kernel build errors out.
> 

The config for freebsd-update is in /etc/freebsd-update.conf The
Compenents part determines what is updated and src is one available
component.

Normally freebsd-update will install minor updates to the installed
system. You can use "freebsd-update -r 9.2-RELEASE upgrade" to upgrade
to new release versions.

Chapter 23.2 of the FreeBSD Handbook offers more detail.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html

A good way to identify your running system - uname -a

As for getting your source -
stable/9 contains updates and features being tested for next release
releng/9.1 contains updates that get sent through freebsd-update.
release/9.1.0 is a frozen copy at time of 9.1.0 release




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