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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 by voltagex_ on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:26AM (#11420016)
What's the reason I can't use `pkg` to update my userland and then just rebuild the kernel instead of rebuilding everything from source?
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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 by MojoDwarf on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:57AM (#11420127)
currently the base userland is not controlled by the pkg system. You can use freebsd-update to do a binary upgrade, which will also sync your kernel sources if you have stuff in /usr/src, so you can simply rebuild kernel after running the update.

Should be noted in 11-CURRENT there is currently ongoing work to move userland and the generic kernel into pkg, so look forward to that as well.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 by voltagex_ on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:32PM (#11425346)
I reverted to a generic kernel (it doesn't look like I ever had /boot/GENERIC - did I read out of date doco?), then ran freebsd-update as normal. Seems to be fine. I'll rebuild my custom kernel later.
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