Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:54:44 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patching a Newly-Built System Message-ID: <201003151254.o2FCsiee070838@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Nerius Landys writes: > By "bringing the patch level up to date" I assume you mean a tag such > as this one: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0 That is what I meant. > in your standard-supfile file, and then doing the "make buildworld" > etc. prodedure outlined in the Handbook. > > The release branches (such as RELENG_8_0) get only very minor > modifications from the time the release is made. The patches are only > ones that address really serious issues, and the extent of the changes > is usually very minimal. Whather you install ports before or after > you update to the latest patch for your release should make absolutely > no difference. That is what I suspected but I wanted to start on the right foot so I thought I would check. Thank you. Martin McCormick
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