From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 12:05:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719555F8 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:05:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk) Received: from mail.tdx.com (mail.tdx.com [62.13.128.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B508FC0C for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Octca64MkIV.tdx.co.uk (octa64.tdx.co.uk [62.13.130.232]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.tdx.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/) with ESMTP id qAPC5hRZ083079 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:05:43 GMT Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:06:06 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz To: Polytropon Subject: Re: freebsd-update - To 'Stable'? Message-ID: <39F2E6C43130FC99BEE99E4F@Octca64MkIV.tdx.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121122174113.fd724619.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20121122174113.fd724619.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:05:53 -0000 --On 22 November 2012 17:41 +0100 Polytropon wrote: >> I'm looking at switching to 'freebsd-update' - is there an equivalent >> way to get it to update me to '-STABLE'? > > No. The freebsd-update program can only be used to follow > the RELEASE branch, plus the security updates (RELEASE-pN). > Following STABLE branch still requires you to update by > source. Ok, as csup is 'deprecated' - I guess what I need to do is move over to Subversion instead? - As 'freebsd-update' is only going to get me release + security (-pX), not 'stable'. At the moment we have a local host that has the entire FreeBSD source tree on it - so we can just 'cherry pick' versions we need to update - I'd guess / hope a similar setup is possible, but with Subversion... -Karl [Off to look for a setup guide ;)]