10.3-RELEASE-p13 "unsupported file layout"

[George Mitchell]

On 01/11/17 17:20, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> [...]
> 
> While I have no suggestions about the error building libc, your statement
> that you can't use freebsd-update due to your use of a custom kernel is
> incorrect. This is a common misconception and, in cases of very limited
> disk space, may be true, it is rare. It is helped by the fact that the man
> page makes no mention of how to so this. (You do still need to build a new
> kernel if the update does, indeed, touch the kernel.)
> 
> All you need is a GENERIC kernel in /boot/GENERIC. You can either build it
> or download it. See the FreeBSD Handbook Section 23.2.3.1, “Custom Kernels
> with FreeBSD 9.X and Later”
> <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html#freebsd-update-custom-kernel-9x>
> for details on downloading a GENERIC kernel. Before any upgrade, major or
> minor, you might wat to re-reas that section.
> 
> Once the GENERIC kernel is in /boot, you may use freebsd-update and, if the
> GENERIC kernel is not updated, you're good to go. If it is, you will need
> to build and install a new custom kernel and reboot. Since most security
> patches don't touch the kernel, this is usually not needed. I believe that
> the 10.3 kernel was last touched in p11.
> --
> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
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Thanks, I'll try that the next time I have a chance.  When I naively
tried a straight "freebsd-update" a few months ago, of course it
overwrote my SCHED_4BSD kernel with a SCHED_ULE one.        -- George

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