Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:09:30 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> Cc: Paul Macdonald via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: stable vs releng Message-ID: <20180822100930.44c638f4.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <010327df-876b-dc05-e9ed-130f3e8decb0@ifdnrg.com> References: <010327df-876b-dc05-e9ed-130f3e8decb0@ifdnrg.com>
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:41:37 +0100, Paul Macdonald via freebsd-questions wr= ote: > Like many i suspect, i have a bunch of boxes on releng, as that used to=20 > be the long term support branch. >=20 > Thats all changed obv , and stable is now the long term support branch. That sounds wrong. > q1) Is it any easier now to change from a releng branch to stable Obtain the sources via SVN, then follow the instructions in the comment header of /usr/src/Makefile. A -STABLE version needs to be built from source. In order to update -RELEASE, you can use the binary method of freebbsd-update, resulting in -RELEASE-pX, where X is the number of the patchlevel. This is how you get your security updates on the long run. The security updates are "backported" (not the correct term here, I know) from -STABLE, which in turn is a point in time during development at -HEAD / -CURRENT. The word "stable" emphasizes that the ABI is _stable_ (so you won't have to re-install ports, as it often is required when you change releases, even though there are the "compat" packages you can use). More information here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.h= tml https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.html https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/current-vs-stable-vs-release.3716/ > q2)=A0 the offical freebsd download links all link to releng, where is=20 > stable for iso/img downloads? There are no such downloads, except maybe development snapshots of -STABLE and -CURRENT which are probably more interesting to developers and testers, not to users. That's the primary reason no installation media is provided - this is usually generated from -RELEASE. This is an example: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/11.2-STABLE Check the surrounding directories for more snapshots. :-) --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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