Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:32:02 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Nekdo Nekje <umeglic@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using 5-STABLE packages with 5.4 RELEASE Message-ID: <4281DF22.7060100@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050511074420.GB97896@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <515659fd050511000010098a6f@mail.gmail.com> <20050511074420.GB97896@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Nekdo Nekje wrote: > > >>My question is... Is it possible to use the latest Samba package with >>the 5.4-RELEASE? Is it absolutely necessary to upgrade the RELEASE >>distibution to -STABLE for that to work? Is using a package from the >>STABLE ports tree with the RELEASE system an insane thing to do? >> >> >It's mostly expected to work, although some packages are tied to a >particular kernel version and may not work on systems other than that >for which they were built. samba should be fine though. > > I've never had a problem with a port that was related running -RELEASE(*). The likelihood of this happening is really quite slim. Many, many people run -RELEASE versions because they want the stability, and because not all machines can be rebooted at whim. All these people have tons of ports installed, which they more than likely keep up to date. I'm sure Kris is correct that, in theory, some port could fail on a -RELEASE version, but it really is very unlikely. It is very much more unlikely with something like samba which runs on many different operating systems. In short, keep your ports up to date! (But read /usr/ports/UPDATING). (*) Actually, I mean RELENG whatever. Check out the handbook on using cvsup to keep your version of FreeBSD up to date with respect to security patches, rather than the more general fixing and improving that goes into STABLE or CURRENT. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html --Alex
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