Can freebsd-update update kernels with option IPFIREWALL_FORWARD

Angelin Lalev lalev at uni-svishtov.bg
Thu Jun 14 12:58:10 UTC 2007


Greetings,

Several weeks ago I tried to change the way my FreeBSD servers are updated. 
Instead of the lengthy procedure of building FreeBSD from sources, 
I tried to use freebsd-update. 
On two of the servers, I ran into a problem. Obviously GENERIC kernel 
with ipfw module loaded couldn't provide the functionality of a kernel, 
compiled with IPFIREWALL_FORWARD option.
So I've returned to my old ways of updating, but I forgot the crontab 
entry which invoked freebsd-update. To my surprise, yesterday I received 
a message, that said that updates are downloaded for my kernel (currently 
FreeBSD 6.2p3 - yeah, I'm lazy ...). 
Does this mean that freebsd-update team builds kernels with IPFIREWALL_FORWARD now?





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