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From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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Cc: wo_shi_big_stomach <wo_shi_big_stomach@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: using CVS to upgrade
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On Tuesday 05 June 2007 16:38, wo_shi_big_stomach wrote:
>  Got a question about upgrading using cvsup.
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> I've been following Richard Bejtlich's excellent howto for keeping
> FreeBSD boxes up to date:
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> http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_up-to-date.html
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> The instructions say to create a supfile with a line like this:
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> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1
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> and if you want to upgrade to the next version, to use this instead:
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> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE
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> My question: Is it OK to skip the "_RELEASE" part and instead use the
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> following:
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> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2
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>

The *_RELEASE tags are points_in_time tags, you'll get
a FreeBSD-something-RELEASE, the same thing that's on
the released CDs.

RELENG_a_b is RELENG_a_b_0_RELEASE + security patches,
the code is very similar to RELENG_a_b_0_RELEASE.

You'll be safe - actually safer - using RELENG_6_2
instead of RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE.

more here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

HTH, Nikos