Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:12:57 -0700 From: Rocky Borg <rrborg@speakeasy.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: releases, branches,.. Message-ID: <4C6463D9.7020902@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <4C646149.6060803@nagual.nl> References: <4C645D9A.3010307@nagual.nl> <20100812225348.4fcbae98.freebsd@edvax.de> <4C646149.6060803@nagual.nl>
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On 8/12/2010 2:02 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On 12-8-2010 22:53, Polytropon wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200, Dick Hoogendijk<dick@nagual.nl> >> wrote: >>> I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? >>> Which brach do I follow? >> In this case, use "freebsd-update" to track -RELEASE; you will >> get the security patches by binary updating, e. g. you can use >> this tool to get from 8.1-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE-p1 without the >> need to compile anything. >> >> See "man freebsd-update" for details. > Thank you. I will follow RELEASE than. Also a thanks to Svein. ;-) Is > RELEASE automaticaly set in a fresh FreeBSD install or do I need to > change anything? > uname -raa freebsd-update will update that version you have installed (so yes RELEASE in a fresh install) only with security patches. If a new version comes out you want to upgrade to you would do something like freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.3-RELEASE
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