Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:47:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: phillip.smith@sympatico.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick upgrading question Message-ID: <20031013144728.GF31259@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20031013143803.BFOU20283.tomts33-srv.bellnexxia.net@[209.226.175.18]> References: <20031013143803.BFOU20283.tomts33-srv.bellnexxia.net@[209.226.175.18]>
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In the last episode (Oct 13), phillip.smith@sympatico.ca said: > Hi there + happy turkey day, Thanksgiving is in November :) > First question ... any drawbacks to doing that upgrade? I'm pretty > sure that I upgraded this machine from 4.5 to 4.6-2 at some point > ealier this year and it wasn't as difficult as I had expected. No, it should be pretty painless. Just make sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING and see if anything important changed from 4.6 to 4.8. > Second question, if I do want to upgrade (painlessly) to 4.8, which > of the following should I be CVSup-ing? RELENG_4_8 or > RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE? I'm not a total newbie, but I'm not too heavily > into this "keeping up with FreeBSD" thing, beyond the necessities. RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE tags what was burned onto the 4.8 CDs being sold and offered for FTP download, and will never change. RELENG_4_8 is a brach tag, and will include all security patches applicable to 4.8, so you probably want to use that. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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