A few weeks ago I detected an issue with my system being in an inconsistent state w.r.t. missing some system files. There's a backstory there that has to do with how the original vendor built and installed the machine, but I don't think it's terribly relevant to my question.
Until discovering the problem, I'd been maintaining the OS with freebsd-update, and was supposedly at 11.2-RELEASE-p5. To get consistent with that version, I built and installed from source. Something curious happened after that though, in that my nightly maintenance mail started reporting that it would make changes, saying "The following files will be updated as part of updating to 11.2-RELEASE-p5." It was only sixteen files not including the /usr/src ones, but notably including the kernel:
I put off trying to figure out why it might be saying that, and now we're up to -p7 (and 12.0 of course) and I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is. Is it ill-advised to switch to using freebsd-update again after installing from world? Do I have build and install from source always now? If not, even though freebsd-update didn't think my source-built -p5 was the same as what it thought -p5 should be, can I just use freebsd-update now to go to -p7? Or should I force it to do the original -p5 changes it wanted to make then go to -p7?
Thanks for any insights.
Until discovering the problem, I'd been maintaining the OS with freebsd-update, and was supposedly at 11.2-RELEASE-p5. To get consistent with that version, I built and installed from source. Something curious happened after that though, in that my nightly maintenance mail started reporting that it would make changes, saying "The following files will be updated as part of updating to 11.2-RELEASE-p5." It was only sixteen files not including the /usr/src ones, but notably including the kernel:
Code:
/boot/kernel/kernel
/boot/kernel/nfscommon.ko
/boot/kernel/nfsd.ko
/boot/kernel/vmm.ko
I put off trying to figure out why it might be saying that, and now we're up to -p7 (and 12.0 of course) and I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is. Is it ill-advised to switch to using freebsd-update again after installing from world? Do I have build and install from source always now? If not, even though freebsd-update didn't think my source-built -p5 was the same as what it thought -p5 should be, can I just use freebsd-update now to go to -p7? Or should I force it to do the original -p5 changes it wanted to make then go to -p7?
Thanks for any insights.