kernel upgrades

[Greg Larkin]

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Joe Tseng wrote:
> I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be
> something totally obvious to others...  I know I can update ports by using
> portsnap fetch/extract/update - does this update the kernel source as well?
> How do I apply this new code?
> 
> - Joe

Hi Joe,

Welcome to the FreeBSD world!  I am also a Linux convert and have had
great success with FreeBSD over the past several years.

I use the freebsd-update utility
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html)
to perform binary upgrades on the servers that I manage.

Be aware that it only supports upgrading GENERIC kernels.  If you have a
custom kernel, read the bottom of this post for information about how
freebsd-update handles that:
http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-stable&id=2642739

You can use freebsd-update to upgrade FreeBSD minor releases as well as
major releases.  Check out these blog postings for more information:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html

Best of luck, and post back to this mailing list with additional
questions that you might have.

Best regards,
Greg
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