freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

Alexandre axelbsd at ymail.com
Mon Aug 20 10:06:30 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Denis <piloyder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have FreeBSD 9.0 (p4) with custom kernel.
>
>  "uname -i" says it:
> HOMEWIFI90
>
> However, when I run "freebsd-update fetch" command it would like to
> update my kernel as well:
>
> freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.0-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org...
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
> The following files are affected by updates, but no changes have
> been downloaded because the files have been modified locally:
> /var/db/mergemaster.mtree
>
> The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.0-RELEASE-p4:
> /boot/kernel/kernel
> /boot/kernel/kernel.symbols
>
> What is wrong with it? If I'm not mistaken, this problem first
> appeared in 9.0-RELEASE-p2, before this everything worked fine.
> How can I fix this error?
>
> Best regards,
> Pi
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Hi Denis,

Have you rebuilt your custom kernel after ?
This is described in the Handbook in the section 25.2.2
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html

Regards,
Alexandre


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