csup and build question

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Sat Jan 1 18:53:32 UTC 2011


On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:38:22 -0800, Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:
> At the risk of confirming my reputation for asking stupid questions:
> 
> If a csup only pulls files in /usr/src/sys, is it safe to assume that the
> only rebuilding steps required are to rebuild and install the kernel?  Or
> is it possible that world could require a rebuild to take advantage of
> some of those kernel changes?

Kernel and world should ALWAYS be in sync, this means you
should update the full /usr/src tree, not just its sys/
subtree, as other files, located at a higher level, may
be important (such as /usr/src/Makefile).




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