From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 11: 4:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperbate.francenet.fr (hyperbate.francenet.fr [193.149.97.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF7137B66D for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 11:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com (pppA203.francenet.fr [193.149.100.113]) by hyperbate.francenet.fr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e97I43H12651; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 20:04:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9A493E6BA1; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 20:03:41 +0200 (CEST) To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_3 References: <20001007193450.A91384@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> From: Eric Masson Date: 07 Oct 2000 19:54:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20001007193450.A91384@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: <863di8eduv.fsf@localhost.nantes.kisoft-services.com> Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Odhiambo" == Odhiambo Washington writes: Odhiambo> poeza: /usr/home/wash (4) % uname -a FreeBSD Odhiambo> poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE #6: Sat Odhiambo> Oct 7 19:01:04 EAT 2000 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/POEZA i386 Odhiambo> That makes me think that I maybe missing something. I really Odhiambo> need to get the box to 3.5.1-STABLE, especially in the light Odhiambo> of the security implications announced today. 3.5.1-STABLE doesn't exist, 3.5.1-RELEASE exists. 3.5.1-RELEASE is an snapshot of RELENG_3 at a given date. So if you update via cvsup to RELENG_3 you will never get 3.5.1-RELEASE but the code in the tree at the date it got released plus all the commits done since. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current-stable.html could be interesting to read Regards Eric Masson -- Progress (n) : What led from smart users in front of dumb terminals to dumb users in front of smart terminals. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message