From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 00:34:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5266316A401 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:34:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFBE43D75 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:34:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144861A4E61; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:34:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 14E0051FCA; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:34:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:59 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Andreas Davour Message-ID: <20060323003359.GA42480@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200603221334.14500.danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> <20060322184325.GA23900@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: daniel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Upgrading to n-STABLE or RELENG_x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:34:13 -0000 --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:34:14PM -0500, daniel wrote: > >>FreeBSD will occasionally release security advisories detailing the=20 > >>badness > >>surrounding a single package and will often include the following as the > >>solution: > >> > >> 1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4-STABLE, 5-STABLE, or 6-STABLE, > >> or to the RELENG_6_0, RELENG_5_4, RELENG_5_3, RELENG_4_11, or > >> RELENG_4_10 security branch dated after the correction date. > >> > >>What does this mean? And how do I do it? > > > >Both questions are answered in the handbook. >=20 > They are, but why is 6-STABLE even mentioned since RELENG_6 is the cvs=20 > tag? Or are there a 6-STABLE tag as well? They are different names for the same thing. Kris --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEIez3Wry0BWjoQKURAmuSAJ4x700FGrcjvj8q9uFLV/bjZUl20QCfZKK5 oaSi6aFJvkgR+Hn0RfQ9BEM= =Uio2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C--