Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 20:47:23 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Brian Smith <smitho@mantech-wva.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie upgrading question Message-ID: <20040526184722.GA12643@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <FLEJKNBKECDIECDJMFGPCEGGCDAA.smitho@mantech-wva.com> References: <FLEJKNBKECDIECDJMFGPCEGGCDAA.smitho@mantech-wva.com>
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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:17:04PM -0400, Brian Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been working with FreeBSD for about a month now, and it is my first > foray into the BSD/UNIX/Linux world. I have a question about upgrading. I > have tried several different ways to go about upgrading, and still can't > seem to get the desired results. I started out with a 4.8 install from > ftp.freebsd.org. My end goal is to build a FreeBSD firewall machine based > on 4.8-STABLE. When I put RELENG_4_8 in my supfile, > download/recompile/etc., uname -a still shows the version at 4.8-RELEASE. > When I cvsup with RELENG_4 in my supfile, I got upgraded to 4.10-STABLE. Is > there any way to upgrade just to 4.8-STABLE? Am I going about this the > wrong way? 4.8-STABLE is just the name used for the RELENG_4 branch after the release of 4.8, but before the release of 4.9. When 4.9 was released the name was changed to 4.9-STABLE (and now it is 4.10-STABLE.) RELENG_4_8 is 4.8-RELEASE plus critical bugfixes, and is probably what you want. (Yes, uname -a is apparently supposed to still say 4.8-RELEASE.) It is not clear what you actually want when you say you want 4.8-STABLE since that just refers to the RELENG_4 branch during a certain period of time that is now in the past. Do you really mean that you want a snapshot of RELENG_4 from some point in that period of time, or do you mean something else? -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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