From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 6 13:08:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD78106564A for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 13:08:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0158FC17 for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 13:08:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF65619E043; Wed, 6 May 2009 15:08:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6390D19E044; Wed, 6 May 2009 15:08:03 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A018BB3.80302@quip.cz> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 15:08:03 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: cz, cs, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru References: <000001c9cd85$afe53b70$0fafb250$@org> <87ljpbwi5v.fsf@kobe.laptop> <747dc8f30905051255j79b11662v716c2456c01d2b8a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Paul Stewart Subject: Re: 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade question X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 13:08:08 -0000 Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Renato, [...] >>I don't know if it's officially supported, but I did an hybrid upgrade >>using freebsd-update for the base and building the custom kernel >>from sources, it worked fine and is still much faster than build >>everything. > > > In principle, you can run into some errors, like KVM size mismatches > (and other ABI changes) if your kernel (that you build from sources) and > updated base will differ. But you'll immediately notice it ;)) And for > most cases such way should work fine. Just a question: How can kernel be different, if it is build from the same sources (7.2-RELEASE)? freebsd-update updates the sources too (if old sources are installed in /usr/src), or am I wrong? Miroslav Lachman