Graham Perrin<p>Zhenlei Huang – FreeBSD committer zlei@ – draws attention to <<a href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39695" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">reviews.freebsd.org/D39695</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>>, and respectfully suggests consideration of merges where three commits have been on the main branch for a few months: </p><p><<a href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/bc0c6c9cf3a9f9a54dbdd92dd8f1f65ff8092d17" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src</span><span class="invisible">/commit/bc0c6c9cf3a9f9a54dbdd92dd8f1f65ff8092d17</span></a>></p><p><<a href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/d3b6d70e0dfaa4e9496bddcbc212d7d3ea392800" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src</span><span class="invisible">/commit/d3b6d70e0dfaa4e9496bddcbc212d7d3ea392800</span></a>></p><p><<a href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/d76ef58d566ccf203b21a1c8fea55985f355d4d2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src</span><span class="invisible">/commit/d76ef58d566ccf203b21a1c8fea55985f355d4d2</span></a>></p><p>Respectively: </p><p>― ⚙ D39695 freebsd-update: Add check for kernel modules</p><p>― freebsd-update: Add check for kernel modules · freebsd/freebsd-src@bc0c6c9</p><p>― freebsd-update(8): Use kern.module_path · freebsd/freebsd-src@d3b6d70</p><p>― freebsd-update: Correctly check if pkg(8) is present · freebsd/freebsd-src@d76ef58</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@emaste" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>emaste</span></a></span> </p><p>Cc: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gumnos</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lproven</span></a></span> </p><p><<a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2024-November/005992.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lists.freebsd.org/archives/fre</span><span class="invisible">ebsd-questions/2024-November/005992.html</span></a>></p><p>「Building a ported kernel module, where the Project-provided package is inferior」</p><p>For readers with a passing interest: to the best of my knowledge, freebsd-update(8) is simply not usable – not testable – with FreeBSD-CURRENT (from the main branch) or STABLE (branches where degrees of testing occur, parallel to short-lived releng branches). </p><p><<a href="https://wiki.bsd.cafe/docs:freebsd:choose" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.bsd.cafe/docs:freebsd:cho</span><span class="invisible">ose</span></a>></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/MFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MFC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ports</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ported" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ported</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/kmod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kmod</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kernel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/modules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modules</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>update</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/upgrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>upgrade</span></a></p>