freebsd-update & userland sources

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 3 22:30:44 UTC 2009


> On Sunday 02 August 2009 16:10:37 Tom Mende wrote:
>> Is there a way to get freebsd-update to keep userland sources up to
>> date?

Yes.  If you have source code installed (for the right version of FreeBSD)
in /usr/src, then freebsd-update will keep it updated.

(Slight complication: Because freebsd-update builds are normally done before
patches are committed to SVN, you won't get the updated SVN revision numbers
or the new entries in UPDATING via freebsd-update -- but you will get all of
the security/errata fixes.)

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Colin Percival
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