Trying to update from 9.0 to 9.1 via svn

Trond Endrestøl Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no
Fri Jan 4 18:41:20 UTC 2013


On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:51-0000, Helmut Schneider wrote:

> Alexandre wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Helmut Schneider <jumper99 at gmx.de>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > I fetched sources via
> > > 
> > > $ sudo svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1 /usr/src/
> > > Checked out revision 244992.
> > > $
> > > 
> > > I then recompiled and installed the kernel according to
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
> > > 
> > > $ ls -la /boot/kernel/kernel
> > > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  15622342 Jan  3 19:57 /boot/kernel/kernel
> > > $
> > > 
> > > But after reboot uname prints
> > > 
> > > FreeBSD BSDHelmut964 9.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p5 #9
> > > r244992M:  Thu Jan  3 19:57:37 CET 2013
> > > root at BSDHelmut964:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > > 
> > > Thanks, Helmut
> > 
> > Have you rebuilt world before compile and install your new 9.1 kernel
> > ?
> 
> Yes.

Upon reading the help message of svnversion, I noticed the revision 
number will contain the capital letter M after the digits if the 
working copy is modified.

Somehow you must have changed one or more of the files kept under 
version control. If this wasn't your intention, you might want to 
revert any changes made.

svn revert -R /usr/src should do the trick.

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