Questions about freebsd-update

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:57:20 -0400, Quartz wrote:
> >>> The tools involved here are already part of the base system (except
> >>> they got manually removed, which renders the OS somehow incomplete).
> >>> A system installation typically uses compiler, assembler, linker,
> >>> installer, and make, which are all contained in the base distribution
> >>> of the OS.
> >>
> >> Wait.... isn't all the build stuff part of the 'src' option during
> >> install?
> >
> > No. The "src" distribution contains the sources which will
> > be available in the /usr/src subtree.
> >
> >> If you unselect that, how does make/install apply patches if
> >> the files it's patching aren't there?
> >
> > It doesn't do that, but the tools make, install, and patch
> > themselves will be available.
> 
> I understand that the utils themselves are still installed regardless, 
> but in order for the 'patch' command to have something to patch against, 
> doesn't 'src' have to be installed also?

Yes, /usr/src _has to be_ present - either by installing src.txz,
as a result of freebsd-update's component src, or via SVN checkout.
The process then involves building from source of course. This is
the most transparent way to deal with updates.



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