From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 11:47:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6649A16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 11:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from av8-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av8-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2780943D53 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 11:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av8-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 3A7D837E4D; Wed, 26 May 2004 20:47:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.178]) by av8-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE3437E42 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 20:47:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 519FB37E46 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 20:47:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 12673 invoked by uid 1001); 26 May 2004 18:47:23 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 20:47:23 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Brian Smith Message-ID: <20040526184722.GA12643@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Smith , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie upgrading question X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:47:59 -0000 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? -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se