From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 10:05:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8F716A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:05:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3261C43D1D for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:05:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.202.196]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040219180554.XABA17235.out011.verizon.net@mac.com>; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:05:54 -0600 Message-ID: <4034FAE2.3010403@mac.com> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:05:22 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pedro Sam References: <4033C774.2030206@daleco.biz> <16436.4522.353718.896339@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200402191058.54306.p2sam@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200402191058.54306.p2sam@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [68.160.202.196] at Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:05:54 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:05:55 -0000 Pedro Sam wrote: > On Wednesday February 18 2004 20:30, Robert Huff wrote: [ ... ] > Just wondering... if one installed 4.9, would the system be stuck with really > outdated userland apps? or would CVSup be able to update the userland ports, > without changing the base system? A FreeBSD 4.9 installation will contain quite modern userland applications. You can use cvsup to update both the sources for userland or for the ports collection. You can also install a port (by default things go under /usr/local) to get a newer version of software than what FreeBSD ships, but the base system and ports are kept seperate (by default, again). > This way, one can get an update(perhaps unstable) userland, but need not fear > the OS crashing... If you want maximum stability, track RELENG_4_9 for now; otherwise track -STABLE (which is RELENG_4, currently). -- -Chuck