freebsd-update patches custom /boot/kernel/kernel which it should not

[Michael Sierchio]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:18 AM, andreas scherrer <ascherrer at gmail.com>wrote:

This is no longer true, though it was true at the time that was written...

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> However, freebsd-update will detect and update the GENERIC kernel in
> /boot/GENERIC (if it exists), even if it is not the current (running)
> kernel of the system.
>

This is no longer true, though it was true at the time


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> Furthermore if I remove the kernel option from the COMPONENTS in
> freebsd-update.conf I think I will not get the kernel source patches
> anymore, right? Which in turn means I have to get them via some other
> mechanism, no?
>
>
No.  If you  have

Components src world

you'll get all sources - which you want, presumably, since /usr/src/sys
changes are sometimes motivated by security vulnerabilities..

- M