From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 07:25:46 2005 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 6472016A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:25:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk [212.104.129.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B660243D41 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:25:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2188740632D for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:25:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20900-01-86 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:25:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from millingtons.org (unknown [82.152.120.109]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C6D406371 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:25:42 +0100 (BST) Received: by millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7CED665C1; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:27:20 +0100 (BST) From: Glyn Millington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter, A.D. 2005 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:27:17 +0100 Message-ID: <86hdicihey.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEUNEBDJOic5IiZ/IxW0 NCHntrfbQCfOdWmAUVT46N2BELz9AAACIUlEQVQ4jWXUvY6jMBAAYIs3sNaiRsMVaZehcIvi4l7A QimRcly9BWeuPNCJeYEUvO3N2IZN9pCiBH/MjydOlHFa63I0rgGosdWdHge+/62c6xiGK4IAOpdg ilAOplEMuCK13TjqMYIEyPNwIVoJ23IcTzCNJLKEiA12I9OPA3iJ5EKo2+GAoXxDS1sIk+/nBlrN NX4qDhj0Fbfg/W3fWaB2XYZRo51ked8ffl4RM/DucJviuoTQ8gL+hHnBo4Z+s+GAR8+5Trg+gQ/U voDfc65AyNkjmK9geIeyQYHpBXQE51AgiReQHSbgjYfgubKPYLpxyECBaLs9wjb1M7WmK3WEa01k iW789BbmhUFn4FVOdvO+D9N8cXduKAHXmPrg4zXbDwZ9gu/j4Hm8268TvvN0JYu0/BV8jMhgXDmo NvYbIwQk1Ydpy7SP/+BI5aR4oGmebgJ389xVmBs+btPu1+3uPsGGGeXo/t379Y8xfGxVHBXYTU4h z8z36/sBctBr4lPDL66D7zrBFStVQN3UFGTEBCc0SslvgAcpsvARTSDrAnyg5VuBAzhRvMCuyC0A VN+c4X4VpnVV1FyaE1WqjlNSzQmW2+V1VaDDZwC0awPyMf5GVfxYVLH+AukOsXWqegKAeFdJSAaQ F0hAkdLiJ0iMBKpU5qgMZw+5xxPSwvGeAxkWyVMAXdIgqiJn4BXeNe+c8oSOq7jE/wW6LCq1o/4B MFsqn6kz4sQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk Subject: Best upgrade strategy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:25:46 -0000 Greetings! I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, an immigrant from the wonderful world of Slackware Linux. Finished installing on Sunday! I wanted to make sure the system was up to date with regard to security fixes etc so used cvsup to upgrade source and re-built the kernel - it all went like a dream - what a system!! What documentation!! Enough rapture! Here's the question Having installed 5.3 from cd, I performed the above upgrade once and found that I was at version 6 Current! Back to the drawing board and started again with the following line in my cvsup file *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 Better - I only find myself with a pre-release 5.4 :-) That is fine, but at the point when 5.4 becomes the production release, I would like simply to track that for security fixes etc rather than follow the stable developement branch. Can I acheive that simply by putting *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 into my cvsup file, at the right time -ie as soon as 5.4 becomes a production release? ? Or will there be such complications that it would be best to perform yet another install (which is smooth but slow on my set-up). Thanks in advance Glyn