Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:56:55 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ranajit Ray <ranajitray2002@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20021017115655.GC88261@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021016234037.759.qmail@web10904.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021016234037.759.qmail@web10904.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:40:37PM -0700, Ranajit Ray wrote: > Now, 4.6.1-RELEASE isn't mentioned _anywhere_ on this > page: <http://www.freebsd.org/releases/>. Is this a > private build? No, not quite. There was going to be a 4.6.1 point release in reponse to some nasty bugs in the new ATA-device driver code and the OpenSSH, apache and bind holes all discovered within a few weeks of 4.6-RELEASE. However, the release process had a few troubles and ultimately 4.6.1 was canned in favour of 4.6.2-RELEASE. That however has since been superceded by 4.7-RELEASE, which is the latest. > Also, this is running some old packages, like > apache-1.3.24_7 (which seems to be actually v1.3.26), > and OpenSSH_2.9. But since apache has some open holes > in versions prior to 1.3.27, would patches for these > have been backported to the 1.2.24_7 package (like how > Debian backports Potato bugixes)? Or is there a place > I can get updated packages for 4.6.1-RELEASE? You can in principal use packages for any 4.x FreeBSD version on your 4.6.1 release machine. (In practice, some recent packages won't work on 4.1-era systems, but that shouldn't affect you.) All available ports were rebuilt for the 4.7 release CD package sets, and any ports updated since then will have a new package available on the ftp sites within a week or so. You can override pkg_add(1)'s default package search path using the PACKAGESITE environment variable, eg: env PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.7-release/All/ pkg_add -r apache-1.3.27.tgz However, in general most people would agree that rather than download prebuild packages, best results are obtained using the ports system. See Chapter 4 of the Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html for a good introduction, and see the many messages on this list singing the praises of portupgrade(1) which is a fantastically useful tool for maintaining the ports installed on your system. > Finally, would you say this system is ready of being > connected to the public internet, or should it be > upgraded to something newer? I'd certainly update all of the ports/packages to the latest versions. I'd also think hard about upgrading to the latest RELENG_4_7 branch --- at the moment that's just about identical to 4.7-RELEASE as there hasn't been sufficient time for any security patches to have accumulated. See these pages for an explanation of the different CVS branches available, and how to obtain them: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvsup-advanced/article.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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