freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Tue Jun 12 20:51:11 UTC 2012


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Ryan Frederick wrote:
> I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After 
> using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this 
> morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installing, 
> and rebooting with the custom kernels subsequent update checks using 
> freebsd-update cron or freebsd-update fetch indicate that 
> /boot/kernel/kernel (and only /boot/kernel/kernel) needs to be updated 
> despite the custom kernel indicating 9.0-RELEASE-p3 in the output of 
> uname -a.

Maybe freebsd-update is taking cognisance of recent posts to
	security-advisories at freebsd.org

Cheers,
Julian
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