Kernel headers

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> I had to installed FreeBSD from the 8.3 DVD, because partitioning doesn't 
> work on my machine, when I used 9.0. I updated the Kernel to 9.1, world and 
> the ports tree.

The ports tree is not branched (ports are identical for all versions of 
FreeBSD), so that's not a problem.

> I now use svn, but there's another issue now.
>
> root at freebsd:/usr/src # svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ 
> /usr/src
> [snip]
> ^CA    lib/libc/quad/fixdfdi.c
>
> svn: E200015: Caught signal
> root at freebsd:/usr/src #
> root at freebsd:/usr/src # uname -a
> FreeBSD freebsd 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec  4 
> 09:23:10 UTC 2012 
> root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> I don't know what "/releng" is for. Does this fit to my kernel?

Yes.

> I suspect I need to checkout r243825. How can I do this or what ever else I 
> have to do?

No, that's a specific revision number, like a bookmark.  If you update 
only to that revision, nothing will change.  See 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn.html