freebsd-update and sources of 9.1-RC3

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Sat Nov 3 15:48:47 UTC 2012


03.11.2012 22:44, jb пишет:
> Eugene Grosbein <eugen <at> grosbein.net> writes:
> 
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm trying to use freebsd-update for first time.
>> I have 9.0-RELEASE installed without sources and I have read Handbook chapter
>> and manual page for freebsd-update.
>> ... 
>> How do I make freebsd-update to download and install sources
>> for 9.1-RC3 so I could rebuild custom kernel?
>> ...
> 
> You did not get src updated because you did not have it before.
> Because there was no official announcement, I can give you a link (similar to
> one for -RC2), from which you can get the sources src.txz:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/9.1-RC3/
> Be sure to check download's signature in MANIFEST file.
> After that:
> - make backup of anything you got in /usr/src, and remove that dir
>   # rm -rf /usr/src
> - unpack downloaded file locally into /usr/src dir (that destination dir is
>   a default)
> 
> jb

Thanks, I've already done that :-)
My real question is how make freebsd-update download sources they are not installed?


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