11.1-RELEASE-p10 cannot compile freebsd stable/11 kernel?

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 08:06:47PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote:
> [details omittied]
> > > I know that clang has been updated a lot; has the kernel source gotten
> > > ahead of clang on stable/11?
> > On stable/11 they are in sync.  The official method of upgrade is
> > 	make buildworld buildkernel
> > from older version takes care of the compiler version transparently.
> > If you use config/make, ensure that the installed world is at the
> > compatible level for the kernel sources.
> 
> So the freebsd-update version is not in sync with the -stable branch?
> That was not at all obvious to me.  I upgrade from source on my -current
> test system, but normally use freebsd-update on my production systems
> (until it failed to update the kernel).

freebsd-update never follows stable.  re@ only provides updates for releases,
and for beta/RCs.  11.2-BETA1 was released three days ago, from which moment
you can update to it using freebsd-update.