svn commit: r39249 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

[Jason Helfman]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 08:41:52PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Eitan Adler <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 28 July 2012 03:07, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > > > A further consideration in the source code-related sections is that
> > > building
> > > > your own {world, kernel} will bump you off the support path for
> binary
> > > > updates and upgrades with freebsd-update.  This is increasingly a
> > > > consideration for our default kernel configuration: kernel options
> that
> > > > require recompilation force users not to use the most user-friendly
> > > upgrade
> > > > path we have.
> > >
> > > I've committed some text to this effect.
> > >
> >
> > And the other side of this, is if you decided to run your own custom
> > kernel, you can run your own update server, and follow the patches from
> > upstream security. Here is an article I wrote to this affect.
> >
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-update-server/
> >
>
> Just a random thought as I am sitting here trying to reproduce some
> release build issues on -CURRENT:
>
> Does this article require any significant change to keep in sync with
> the changed 'make release' process starting with 9.0-RELEASE?
>
> Glen
>
>
I believe it would require none, as this doesn't need to be done with a
custom kernel, and the current
freebsd-update-server code already works with 9. To this, though, if you
wanted your own non-GENERIC named
kernel, the release process itself would need to be altered.

I had done this though, and documented at least what needs to be updated
when using sysinstall here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-build.html
section 3.3.1 (custom kernel)

-jgh

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