From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 6 13:13:59 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 C55C8106567B for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 13:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru) Received: from 0.mx.codelabs.ru (0.mx.codelabs.ru [144.206.177.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757418FC14 for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 13:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=one; d=codelabs.ru; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:Reply-To:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:Sender; b=fqdmNMxiDOoq3d/4ABgtvE4VBDOKQq6XSLRtCbHbc7vhI8Xtc4UBOU6Pt3C5yS+/nVs2anJwy9lEAi83rkXIrffLatbxqtcQ/M9LsAe/e0Zsuptn7/q+gHWZ2R0mKKc8GT9xreIVs6QoG7NBddT2VFGEfxyTvvzmNOqMQw5k9fE=; Received: from amnesiac.at.no.dns ([91.78.118.163]) by 0.mx.codelabs.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1M1gwf-0002Ch-E9; Wed, 06 May 2009 17:13:57 +0400 Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 17:13:55 +0400 From: Eygene Ryabinkin To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Message-ID: References: <000001c9cd85$afe53b70$0fafb250$@org> <87ljpbwi5v.fsf@kobe.laptop> <747dc8f30905051255j79b11662v716c2456c01d2b8a@mail.gmail.com> <4A018BB3.80302@quip.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A018BB3.80302@quip.cz> Sender: rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru 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 Reply-To: rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru 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 13:14:00 -0000 Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:08:03PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > > 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? If you are really checking out 7.2-RELEASE, then no, they can't be different. But you could checkout 7-STABLE and thus kernel might diverge from the world. -- Eygene _ ___ _.--. # \`.|\..----...-'` `-._.-'_.-'` # Remember that it is hard / ' ` , __.--' # to read the on-line manual )/' _/ \ `-_, / # while single-stepping the kernel. `-'" `"\_ ,_.-;_.-\_ ', fsc/as # _.-'_./ {_.' ; / # -- FreeBSD Developers handbook {_.-``-' {_/ #