From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 10 1:34:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64C637B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 01:34:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14xluB-0005os-00; Thu, 10 May 2001 09:34:42 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4A8YUG81387; Thu, 10 May 2001 09:34:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:34:30 +0100 From: Rasputin To: Peter van Dijk Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple question about cvsup: 4.2R -> STABLE Message-ID: <20010510093430.A81309@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <20010510002722.Q825-100000@gateway.bogus> <20010510013144.E313@dataloss.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010510013144.E313@dataloss.net>; from peter@dataloss.net on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:31:44AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Peter van Dijk [010510 00:35]: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:32:33AM +0100, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > I have FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE installed and and want to pass it to STABLE. > > > > I have already started cvsup with the stable-supfile configured with > > "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4". > > > > I want to know if this is correct of should have to upgrade to 4.3R and > > then pass to the STABLE version. > > RELENG_4 is just fine. However, why not go to 4.3R and stay there? Because then you don't get an updated system after every cvsup? It's a lot easier than manually tracking BugTraq and downloading patches by hand. -- BLISS is ignorance Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message