Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:58:50 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Brian Smith <smitho@mantech-wva.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie upgrading question Message-ID: <20040526195850.GA5191@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <FLEJKNBKECDIECDJMFGPCEGGCDAA.smitho@mantech-wva.com> References: <FLEJKNBKECDIECDJMFGPCEGGCDAA.smitho@mantech-wva.com>
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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:17:04PM -0400, Brian Smith wrote:
> I have been working with FreeBSD for about a month now, and it is my first
> foray into the BSD/UNIX/Linux world. I have a question about upgrading. I
> have tried several different ways to go about upgrading, and still can't
> seem to get the desired results. I started out with a 4.8 install from
> ftp.freebsd.org. My end goal is to build a FreeBSD firewall machine based
> on 4.8-STABLE. When I put RELENG_4_8 in my supfile,
> download/recompile/etc., uname -a still shows the version at 4.8-RELEASE.
> When I cvsup with RELENG_4 in my supfile, I got upgraded to 4.10-STABLE. Is
> there any way to upgrade just to 4.8-STABLE? Am I going about this the
> wrong way?
RELENG_4 is the active development branch for the 4.X series of
releases. We are just wrapping up the 4.10 release now. Typically
things that get committed to RELENG_4 have been well tested but at
times it can be slightly risky to use that in a production environment.
A less risky thing to follow is the specific version branches. You had
tried the right thing which was to cvsup to RELENG_4_8. I'm not sure
what step(s) you missed when trying to do that, but that is the right
approach for what you want. You will not however see -STABLE in uname.
You will only see -STABLE on RELENG_4. What you will see on the
version based branches is something like "4.8-RELEASE-p22" (that is
what you should see now if you cvsup/install from RELENG_4_8). This
denotes that 22 security related patches have been made to that branch
since it was released. Only security related patches get applied to
these brances once a release happens, which is why they are slightly
less risky to use in production environments.
--
Ken Smith
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