On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Mark Martinec <mark.marti...@ijs.si> wrote:
> It would be nice to use VIMAGE, but is not in a GENERIC kernel. > Using a custom kernel voids a comfort of using freebsd-update > for installing patch revisions and upgrades. > > Mark Not really. First, most updates don't touch the kernel. Even when they do, you just need to re-build your custom kernel, a rather trivial exercise when compared to maintaining a system manually. It is easy to do the actual build on a different system and just copy it to multiple systems. It is only required for the actual kernel, not modules. You do have to keep a copy of the GENERIC kernel as /boot/GENERIC. The Handbook says "Always keep a copy of the GENERIC kernel in /boot/GENERIC. It will be helpful in diagnosing a variety of problems and in performing version upgrades." If freebsd-update calls for a reboot, this is when you need to replace /boot/kernel/kernel with your custom kernel. If the kernel was not changed, you won't be required to reboot, though I do recommend doing so to be sure that no vulnerable code is left running. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"