Install source code
Download FreeBSD
source code according architecture, version:
fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/`uname -s`/releases/`uname -m`/`uname -r | cut -d'-' -f1,2`/src.txz
Uncompress the source package:
tar -C / -xvzf src.txz
Make sure the src
is included in Components
line in /etc/freebsd-update.conf
, so when using freebsd-update
to update system, also the source code is refreshed.
# cat /etc/freebsd-update.conf
......
# Components of the base system which should be kept updated.
Components src world kernel
......
References:
A question about downloading FreeBSD kernel code;
Install FreeBSD kernel source after installed freebsd.