Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 18:41:42 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: updating /sys/sys Message-ID: <20140101184142.5f11b3f6@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <52C3CC18.30407@dreamchaser.org> References: <52C37801.8010001@dreamchaser.org> <20140101114745.3a3e37fb@X220.alogt.com> <52C3CC18.30407@dreamchaser.org>
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Hi, On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 01:04:40 -0700 Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> wrote: > On 12/31/13 20:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > >> I just used freebsd-update to upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2. Everything > >> seemed to go properly, but if I look at /sys/sys all of the .h > >> files say something like: * $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/sys/sys/cons.h > >> 196506 2009-08-24 10:53:30Z ed $ > >> > >> /etc/freebsd-update looks like: > >> > >> ... Components src world kernel IgnorePaths ... > >> > >> Why aren't they updated? > > > > why should they? They define the 'interface' to the implementation. > > It is most important that these interfaces do change as little as > > possible especially in a STABLE version. > > If I think about it, it seems that what you say should be the case. > However, if you download the src tarball and do some diffs, you will > see that many of them are in fact different; how significant those > differences are, I'm not sure. I hit this problem trying to build > sysutils/lsof quite a while ago. It still doesn't build for me after > upgrading to 9.2. I never used a 9.X, so I do not know. If .h files are changed - I mean not just the comments - it is not possible to run old binaries from the version before. But binaries from 9.0 should run on 9.2. > > > They can change when you update to 10 and they can change all the > > while on CURRENT but not on RELEASE versions like 8 and 9. > > Maybe that *should* be the situation, but it is not in actuality. It happens for parts which under development. > > >> What's the best way to get them updated? > > > > You should have the current version if nothing is mentioned in > > UPDATING. > > I ended up getting them via the src.txz tarball: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/9.2-RELEASE/ > > Moving the 9.0 /usr/src/sys/sys directory to the side and symlinking > to the usr/src/sys/sys directory from the 9.2 tarball allows it to > compile. Sounds strange. Every RELEASE must compile. At least the world has to compile. It is a different story for a custom build kernel. There is the chance that you select a combination of options which will not result in a working kernel. Sometimes, this is documented, sometimes, it is not. Erich > > Gary > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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