From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 07:47:30 2003 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 C9BB316A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 07:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C8843FBD for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 07:47:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h9DElTPq092217; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:47:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:47:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: phillip.smith@sympatico.ca Message-ID: <20031013144728.GF31259@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20031013143803.BFOU20283.tomts33-srv.bellnexxia.net@[209.226.175.18]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031013143803.BFOU20283.tomts33-srv.bellnexxia.net@[209.226.175.18]> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick upgrading question 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: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:47:30 -0000 In the last episode (Oct 13), phillip.smith@sympatico.ca said: > Hi there + happy turkey day, Thanksgiving is in November :) > First question ... any drawbacks to doing that upgrade? I'm pretty > sure that I upgraded this machine from 4.5 to 4.6-2 at some point > ealier this year and it wasn't as difficult as I had expected. No, it should be pretty painless. Just make sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING and see if anything important changed from 4.6 to 4.8. > Second question, if I do want to upgrade (painlessly) to 4.8, which > of the following should I be CVSup-ing? RELENG_4_8 or > RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE? I'm not a total newbie, but I'm not too heavily > into this "keeping up with FreeBSD" thing, beyond the necessities. RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE tags what was burned onto the 4.8 CDs being sold and offered for FTP download, and will never change. RELENG_4_8 is a brach tag, and will include all security patches applicable to 4.8, so you probably want to use that. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com