From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 13 15:49:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h008.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30FF637B401 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:49:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 9084 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2001 15:49:00 -0800 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.214) with SMTP; 13 Jan 2001 15:49:00 -0800 X-Sent: 13 Jan 2001 23:49:00 GMT From: "Otter" To: , "whisky" Cc: Subject: RE: Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:54:09 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200101131639.f0DGdDa36364@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -release is just a snapshot of -stable. the only difference between 4.2-release and 4.2-stable is that the code in -stable is a little newer, but basically the same userland functions and features. the only differnces would be the commits to -stable since the -release... about 2 months worth of changes, as i recall. -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bruce A. Mah }Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:39 AM }To: whisky }Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: } } }If memory serves me right, "whisky" wrote: }> Is it recommended to cvsup from 4.2-RELEASE to 4.x-STABLE }> }> Any exploits/bugs that might persuade me to defaintely do it......? } }The release notes will tell you what's changed since the last release }along a branch, to within about a week. After you grab }4-STABLE sources }to your system, read one of the following as appropriate to your }architecture: } }/usr/src/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT }/usr/src/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT } }You can also browse these files in the on-line CVS repository. } }Bruce. } } } } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message