From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 16:26:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1284106566C for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:26:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@experts-exchange.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EDB8FC0C for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F6226ED3DD; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:26:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=e-e.com; h= user-agent:organization:in-reply-to:content-disposition :content-type:content-type:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:subject:from:from:date:date:received:received:received; s=ee; t=1320337617; x=1322152017; bh=GlH2JvzB/wu6uqfUy6cE2n9hlX /xCRTV3tWBUJfRDHY=; b=Pj5Sfv5Yq17/GRbK6TrxB7JQAvxGjdEnpxpH6Od5bs 6aEOvJ6Xxuq7Kz+tVdiKsmHGGvt7XkNcE0WW1yG870QIxZRH+BJnX7oX6hL8JgP7 boJpoR6WD2SsOosWfSz1elaaw2g+ugb/HzW0MX+CQ9DqffilRadTAfPPJ1O0L5b1 I= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dUXKngfVB1g5; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from experts-exchange.com (unknown [192.168.103.122]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B2FA6ED35E; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (nullmailer pid 60139 invoked by uid 1001); Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:26:54 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:26:54 -0700 From: Jason Helfman To: Michael Sierchio Message-ID: <20111103162654.GD25517@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <1320335356.50710.YahooMailClassic@web122206.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20111103161340.GC25517@eggman.experts-exchange.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Organization: Experts-Exchange, LLC. http://www.experts-exchange.com X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: masayoshi , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel) 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, 03 Nov 2011 16:26:58 -0000 On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 09:19:29AM -0700, Michael Sierchio thus spake: >On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jason Helfman wrote: > >> I does work fine with a custom kernel, as long as you are running and >> maintaining the actual update server that distributes. > >I don't think that's relevant. It works fine with the public servers. > I beg to differ. If you run a kernel called CUSTOM, it won't work. And if you run a custom kernel called GENERIC, the moment you upgrade, you custom kernel is no longer custom. All of this aside, I would be interested in hearing how you are able to avoid non-custom updates to your custom kernel when the kernel or os patches are distributed by the update servers. -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5