Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:29:03 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: wo_shi_big_stomach <wo_shi_big_stomach@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: using CVS to upgrade Message-ID: <200706051729.04111.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <419419.40105.qm@web35209.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <419419.40105.qm@web35209.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Tuesday 05 June 2007 16:38, wo_shi_big_stomach wrote: > Got a question about upgrading using cvsup. > > > > I've been following Richard Bejtlich's excellent howto for keeping > FreeBSD boxes up to date: > > > http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_up-to-date.html > > > > The instructions say to create a supfile with a line like this: > > > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1 > > > > and if you want to upgrade to the next version, to use this instead: > > > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE > > > > My question: Is it OK to skip the "_RELEASE" part and instead use the > > following: > > > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2 > > The *_RELEASE tags are points_in_time tags, you'll get a FreeBSD-something-RELEASE, the same thing that's on the released CDs. RELENG_a_b is RELENG_a_b_0_RELEASE + security patches, the code is very similar to RELENG_a_b_0_RELEASE. You'll be safe - actually safer - using RELENG_6_2 instead of RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE. more here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html HTH, Nikos
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