Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 10:19:43 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: albi <albi@scii.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: details about EOL (of FreeBSD 5.4) ? Message-ID: <20060509141943.GA88511@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <44605ED5.8090805@scii.nl> References: <44605ED5.8090805@scii.nl>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:20:21AM +0200, albi wrote: >=20 > i'm running 5.4 on a few servers, and i wondered till when > security-updates will be available >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/security/ says that the EOL is estimated may 31 > 2006, but does that also mean no more security-updates for 5.4 ? Yes. > i have no problem with doing a reinstall with the brand new 6.1 (or is > the upgrade-jump from 5.4 to 6.1 no problem at all ?) , but i just like > to get an idea when that would be really needed :) 5.4 to 6.x is pretty straightforward. The only thing to watch out for is to recompile all your ports (which you have to do when crossing any major revision boundary). portupgrade -fa or -faPP makes this pretty easy though. Kris --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEYKT/Wry0BWjoQKURAn0oAKCzPwsQUpujYsAMSa6heP+2fsHx8ACgwOqe Gc2vgC4aXfRop5O0UBhqHTw= =485+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--
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