From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 10 8:12:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gifw.genroco.com (genroco.com [205.254.195.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F20537B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 08:12:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from gi2.genroco.com (IDENT:root@gi2.genroco.com [192.133.120.3]) by gifw.genroco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06719; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:12:31 -0500 Received: from scot.genroco.com (scot.genroco.com [192.133.120.125]) by gi2.genroco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA05139; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:13:07 -0500 Message-ID: <011a01c0d963$94929d00$7d7885c0@genroco.com> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "Rasputin" Cc: References: <20010510002722.Q825-100000@gateway.bogus> <20010510013144.E313@dataloss.net> <20010510093430.A81309@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: Simple question about cvsup: 4.2R -> STABLE Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:12:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Rasputin" > * 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. > There is also the RELENG_4_3_0 Branch, whos purpose is to have only security related fixes applied. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message