Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:42:59 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating 4.2 release to 4.3 release Message-ID: <200107241842.f6OIgxb06483@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:21:06 CDT." <01072223210608.00379@mark9.vladsempire.net>
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> From: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:21:06 -0500 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Just a second of background before you get your answer. -STABLE is a branch > of FreeBSD that is designed for production machines. A -RELEASE is nothing > more than a snapshot of -STABLE from a certain date. -CURRENT is the > development branch of FreeBSD, and that is totally experimental. It is > fairly common for -CURRENT to not even compile, let alone be usable. > > You should upgrade from 4.2-RELEASE to 4.3-STABLE. That will get you all of > the latest bugfixes and so forth. You can upgrade from 4.2-RELEASE to > 4.3-RELEASE without reinstalling, but I can't think of any reason why you > would want to do that. Josh, Go read the new handbook section on stable and than please re-think your advice. What Wayne really wants is to use RELENG_4_3 to get 4.3-Release with security patches. There has been an interminable thread on this in stable and Jordan re-did the handbook section to explain how it REALLY is. Yes, releases are snapshots of stable, but not at random times like simply cvsup to stable. Releases are preceded by a code freeze and an effort to make sure that everything is a clean as possible. Then the RELENG_x_y tag is the "stabilized" stable plus critical patches. (This pretty much means security patches.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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