From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 18:11:46 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 C72DA16A422 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:11:46 +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 717FA43D6E for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:11:41 +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 4DDF51A4E8A; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AB9135118E; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:11:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:11:38 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Andreas Davour Message-ID: <20060323181138.GA84425@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200603221334.14500.danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> <20060322184325.GA23900@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060323003359.GA42480@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ" 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 18:11:46 -0000 --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:16:23PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > >>On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:34:14PM -0500, daniel wrote: > >>>>FreeBSD will occasionally release security advisories detailing the > >>>>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. > >> > >>They are, but why is 6-STABLE even mentioned since RELENG_6 is the cvs > >>tag? Or are there a 6-STABLE tag as well? > > > >They are different names for the same thing. >=20 > Let me rephrase it. Is it not uneccesary to mention 6-STABLE, since=20 > RELENG_6 is the same thing, and the only string you'll ever use when=20 > doing the upgrade the advisory advice is in fact "RELENG_6"? You'll encounter 6-STABLE often when people talk about it, so you need to know what it means. > It seems redundant, as they are as you say just different names for the= =20 > same thing, but RELENG_6 is the only one actually used when cvsup'ing? Yes. Kris --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEIuTZWry0BWjoQKURAnQVAJ9IL+iudQAkfTokOT/o8XuPUmVEygCg6ej6 Dmbtl5+YaiSW3nFCz80pHrA= =a8dl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ--