From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 22 20:33:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14706.mail.yahoo.com (web14706.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52B7D37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:33:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayneclubin@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010723033348.38144.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.131.161.101] by web14706.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:33:48 PDT Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:33:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Wayne Lubin Subject: updating 4.2 release to 4.3 release To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The documentation seems a bit confusing on this. Chapter 20 talks about how to update to either the current or stable versions. It also states that neither is as stable as the release version. So, if all I am interested in is upgrading to 4.3, and not so much interested in the less stable up to date versions, then shouldn't I be upgrading from my 4.2 release to 4.3 release? If so, then is the only way to do this to simply install 4.3 from scratch and thus erase all of my present config files and installed ports etc...? Chapter 20 does mention briefly that to go from release version to release version then one should "use the binary update mechanism". What is the binary mechanism and where is some documentation on it. A bit confused but ok :) Wayne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message