Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:02:17 -0400 From: jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> To: glyn@millingtons.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best upgrade strategy Message-ID: <425C99C9.4000405@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <86hdicihey.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <86hdicihey.fsf@nowhere.org>
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Glyn Millington wrote: >Greetings! > >I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, an immigrant from the wonderful world of >Slackware Linux. Finished installing on Sunday! > >I wanted to make sure the system was up to date with regard to security >fixes etc so used cvsup to upgrade source and re-built the kernel - it >all went like a dream - what a system!! What documentation!! > > Hold on, just the kernel or the kernel and world. You have to keep these in sync on FreeBSD. Just checking because I hear you can just upgrade the linux kernel to your hearts content without messing with the other stuff on the system. >Enough rapture! Here's the question Having installed 5.3 from cd, I >performed the above upgrade once and found that I was at version 6 >Current! Back to the drawing board and started again with the following >line in my cvsup file > >*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 > >Better - I only find myself with a pre-release 5.4 :-) > >That is fine, but at the point when 5.4 becomes the production release, I >would like simply to track that for security fixes etc rather than follow >the stable developement branch. > >Can I acheive that simply by putting > > >*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 > >into my cvsup file, at the right time -ie as soon as 5.4 becomes >a production release? ? Or will there be such >complications that it would be best to perform yet another install (which >is smooth but slow on my set-up). > >Thanks in advance > > > > > >Glyn >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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