From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 21:34:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 952F11065673 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:34:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7911C8FC1D for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:34:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F571A000B0C for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:04:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at smtp.sd73.bc.ca Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id dCoQbIlh5uk1 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:04:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coal.local (s10.sbo [192.168.0.10]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D961A000B0B for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:04:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Freddie Cash Organization: School District 73 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:04:00 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803261404.00508.fjwcash@gmail.com> Subject: Re: "s/stable/broken/g" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:34:28 -0000 On March 22, 2008 01:01 pm Peter Much wrote: > Both of them were running Release 5.5, and they were doing all that > is needed, and I was perfectly happy with this. > > Now, as we know, security support for Release 5.5 will terminate > during this spring, and as my computers are exposed to the Internet, > this means that I MUST upgrade, even while I do not need or want > anything from a higher release. > > So I upgraded the first computer to Release 6.3. The outcome was A safer (recommended?) upgrade process when crossing major versions (ie 5.x to 6.x) is to upgrade to the latest release of the "old" version, then to the .0 release of the "new" version, then to the latest release of the "new" version. So from 5.x to 5.5, then from 5.5 to 6.0, then from 6.0 to 6.3. The devs take great pains to make the transition from "latest X.x to Y.0" simple and mostly fool-proof, and the transition from "Y.x to Y.z" simple and mostly fool-proof. But there are no guarantees when going from X.x to Y.z. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com