A question about downloading FreeBSD kernel code

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Jul 4 17:50:14 UTC 2016


On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> While Warren is correct in his command line:
>
> svn checkout -r nnnnnn https://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.3 /usr/src
>
> actually, for -RELEASE branches, you typically want to have all the
> available SA and EN patches applied, and you can do that without having
> to know a revision number:
>
> svn checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.3 /usr/src

Right... but I was concerned with trying to match the installed version 
already on the system.  Not a problem if world and kernel are going to 
be built and installed, though.


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