Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

[Nikolas Britton]

Ben Washington-Yule wrote:

> Nikolas Britton wrote:
>
>> Ben Washington-Yule wrote:
>>
>>> Nikolas Britton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make 
>>>> world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. 
>>>> setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3?
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>>> But why would you update your sources if you are not going to 
>>> compile and install them?
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>>
>>
>> Umm, umm, lol, yes I thought of this after I sent it, most of the 
>> updates are for userland and system tools, not the kernel, duh, sorry.
>>
>>
> I know everyone always says "read the handbook" but in this case it is 
> very useful. Read the chapters on the FreeBSD kernel and also the 
> chapter aptly named "The Cutting Edge"
>
> Regards, Ben
>
Been there done that and I did it long time ago, this was just a moment 
of stupidity and not thinking before posting. I was in the middle of 
updating my sources when I had to make some changes to the kernel and 
rebuild it and I didn't have time or the desire rebuild world.