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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:49:59 -0500
From:      "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Glenn Sieb <ges@wingfoot.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...
Message-ID:  <4175D257.7010504@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <4175CA60.1060907@wingfoot.org>
References:  <417579FB.6090805@wingfoot.org> <20041019213837.GB822@alex.lan> <41758B49.8040205@wingfoot.org> <20041020010116.GC822@alex.lan> <4175CA60.1060907@wingfoot.org>

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Glenn Sieb wrote:

> Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM:
>
>> Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most
>> reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but
>> 5-RELENG
>>  
>>
> To help ease frustration and such.. you mean:
>
> Follow RELENG_5_2 not RELENG_5 (from: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html)
>
> In cvsup-supfile speak for those of us using cvsup to sync our source 
> trees
>
> Thanks for the advice, Alex! :)
>
> Best,
> G.
>

Just for general information:  Bruce Mah has a fine article,
entitled "FreeBSD 5.3-BETA Migration Guide".  Worth a read
for anyone moving from anywhere towards 5.3-RELEASE, IMO.

http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html

Kevin Kinsey



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