From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 4 19:12:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 EEE9D16A41F for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:12:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E6B43D4C for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:12:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EizGh-0007zB-Me for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:11:27 +0100 Received: from r5k4.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:11:27 +0100 Received: from martinkov by r5k4.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:11:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:09:58 +0100 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <43932546.4090904@redstarling.com> <20051204173237.GA3477@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <439329D6.30700@redstarling.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k4.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051114 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <439329D6.30700@redstarling.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: how to track 6.0 increments ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:12:50 -0000 ke.han wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote: >> >>> I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes >>> before something labeled 6.1 comes out. >>> What is the prescribed method for this? >>> >>> I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I just >>> want security fixes and other changes that might be termed 6.01 if >>> there were such a thing. >> >> >> >> Create a cvsup-file with >> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_0 > > > thanks...so now that I have sync'd my source incorrectly by using > stable-supfile and standard-supfile, can I get things back to where I > want just by sync'ing again with the RELENG_6_0 tag ?? > > thanks ke han why incorrectly? those files come as cvsup examples. and they're correct, you only need to specify your nearest mirror (*default host=) and if you want to follow the security branch, just change tag=RELENG_6 to tag=RELENG_6_0 martin > >> >> This will only give you important security fixes. If there are fixes, >> you can find them on the FreeBSD homepage, under SECURITY ADVISORIES. >> >> If a advisory has come out, use cvsup to update the sources, and rebuild >> your kernel and userland as documented at the end of /usr/src/UPDATING >> under the heading 'To rebuild everything and install it on the current >> system". Note; you have to be in /usr/src to build world+kernel. >> >> Roland >