Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:15:09 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@mail.ru> To: glyn@millingtons.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best upgrade strategy Message-ID: <425B919D.9030408@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <86hdicihey.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <86hdicihey.fsf@nowhere.org>
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Glyn Millington wrote: > That is fine, but at the point when 5.4 becomes the production release, I > would like simply to track that for security fixes etc rather than follow > the stable developement branch. > > Can I acheive that simply by putting > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 > > into my cvsup file, at the right time -ie as soon as 5.4 becomes > a production release? ? Or will there be such > complications that it would be best to perform yet another install (which > is smooth but slow on my set-up). Yes, you can use RELENG_5_4 tag to track security fixes when 5.4 is released. It goes smoothly most of the times, some people even managed to upgrade from 4.x to 5.x without reinstalling (ok, _that_ wasn't smooth). Just look through release notes, src/UPDATING and so on, and use mergemaster carefully. Best wishes, Andrew P.
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