kernel help

[James Pole]

On 8/10/2004, at 4:21 PM, Geoff Sweet wrote:

> Anyway now I want to make my changes to my GENERIC kernel so that I
> don't have to do the world thing.  So I already CVSup'ed the /usr/src
> directory to 4.10, so that is bad for me. Can I whack the /usr/src
> directory and use sysinstall to load on the /usr/src files? If I tell 
> it
> to go get it from ftp.freebsd.org, is it going to retrieve the latest
> (so 4.10) source or will it retrieve my default 4.9 source?  I am 
> trying
> to get a cd stuck in my box so that I can just do this off the CD, but
> thier tech support is a bit slow... HA.

Heya,

The best thing for you to do is to just take the standard CVSup file 
from:-
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile

Then update the following line:-
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9

This should revert the source code to the 4.9 release -- and as a bonus 
all the security fixes for 4.9-RELEASE will be included as well. 
RELENG_4 will update you to the very latest code for FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE 
while RELENG_4_9 will update you to the latest patched code for 
4.9-RELEASE.

When you update your system will be FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p99 (where 99 
is the patch level which shows how many patches has been applied to 
4.9-RELEASE) instead of just plain FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. You can verify 
this by running the `uname -a` command.

Regards,
James