config/kernel version mismatch after cvsup

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon May 31 04:39:45 PDT 2004


On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:33:31PM +0200, Peter Schuller wrote:
> > > What am I missing?
> >
> > The correct update sequence documented in the handbook and UPDATING.
> 
> Where exactly is this documented? I was pretty darned sure I was following the 
> official procedure (it's not the first time I've done this), and indeed when 
> I re-read:
> 
>    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html

See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html

Your link doesn't seem to mention explicitly that you need to follow
the full upgrade procedure when you update your sources, which
includes a kernel build at the appropriate point. You might like to
submit a PR requesting that the documentation be clarified in this
regard.

> I cannot find any step that I am missing. Nor can I find anything in UPDATING 
> (except -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE which is not documented in the handbook, but 
> didn't help in this case). And I *did* check UPDATING before trying to build, 
> but found no new entries regarding specific problems at the moment.

Check the end of the file, after the date-specific entries.

Kris
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