From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 22: 3:44 2002 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 C81B137B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F2043E09 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:03:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 539454F770; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 01:05:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E73D4A14 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 01:05:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 01:05:05 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 -> 4.6 upgrade necessary? In-Reply-To: <20020628064604.P17435-100000@small.pukruppa.de> Message-ID: 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 On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Subject: Re: 4.5 -> 4.6 upgrade necessary? > > Hi! > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > > I have a 4.5 system thats been purring along fine for a long time now. > > I've installed quite a bit from the base 4.5 ports and packages > > collection but nothing from outside of them. I'm thinking of updating > > this box and just for yucks I grabbed the 4.6 ISOs. > > > > Several of my ports and packages could use an upgrade (ssh, wm's, other > > stuff). Should I use the 'Upgrade' option in the 4.6 install? Or CVSup? Do > > I really have any reason to upgrade? I mean, it just continues to run like > > a top ... ;-) Perhaps I should just learn how to update my source tree? > In case you are running some kind of production machine you > should stay to your working system - as long as you are content > with it. > > If you wish to stay up-to-date with the latest ports and apps, > you should learn how to update your sources and ports to -STABLE > - works fine for me and I don't think I am a big expert. > > Regards, > > Uli. > Thanks Uli. It's a workstation I use for c, perl and Alpha Centauri, so no big danger. I think I'll just upgrade this box to STABLE. I should learn how to do that anyway! JB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message