Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:58:05 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists_nada@tx.rr.com> Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update and more information Message-ID: <4868E66D.7050609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <798003FA99F832C74E72448B@Macintosh.local> References: <4868D011.3080100@lc-words.com> <798003FA99F832C74E72448B@Macintosh.local>
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Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On June 30, 2008 2:22:41 PM +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot > <z.szalbot@lc-words.com> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, >> after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find >> information about if the installed updates require recompiling the >> kernel or system restart? >> >> Thank you in advance! > > Maybe I'm confused, but I thought freebsd-update installed precompiled > binaries of the generic kernel and world. True, but it also updates the relevant sources if installed (as another poster said, freebsd-update will only update what you have installed - I tend to always assume that everybody installs full sources, but that's just me) > Therefore, you would need to reboot if the kernel changed. > Freebsd-update should tell you what will be changed after it finishes > the fetch. I don't recall if it also tells you what it installed. If it tells you it updated /boot/kernel/kernel, you should reboot. If you are running a custom kernel and you see files getting updated in /usr/src/sys (mind you, not just the /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh, but other files too - newvers.sh is always updated to reflect the new -p# in uname, if you rebuild your kernel) you should rebuild your custom kernel and reboot.
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