From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 03:51:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B270E16A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:51:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041D443D55 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:51:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from [65.184.209.112] (cpe-065-184-209-112.ec.res.rr.com [65.184.209.112])j3D3pJ0V007017; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:51:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <425C99C9.4000405@ec.rr.com> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:02:17 -0400 From: jason henson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050321) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: glyn@millingtons.org References: <86hdicihey.fsf@nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <86hdicihey.fsf@nowhere.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best upgrade strategy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:51:24 -0000 Glyn Millington wrote: >Greetings! > >I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, an immigrant from the wonderful world of >Slackware Linux. Finished installing on Sunday! > >I wanted to make sure the system was up to date with regard to security >fixes etc so used cvsup to upgrade source and re-built the kernel - it >all went like a dream - what a system!! What documentation!! > > Hold on, just the kernel or the kernel and world. You have to keep these in sync on FreeBSD. Just checking because I hear you can just upgrade the linux kernel to your hearts content without messing with the other stuff on the system. >Enough rapture! Here's the question Having installed 5.3 from cd, I >performed the above upgrade once and found that I was at version 6 >Current! Back to the drawing board and started again with the following >line in my cvsup file > >*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 > >Better - I only find myself with a pre-release 5.4 :-) > >That is fine, but at the point when 5.4 becomes the production release, I >would like simply to track that for security fixes etc rather than follow >the stable developement branch. > >Can I acheive that simply by putting > > >*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 > >into my cvsup file, at the right time -ie as soon as 5.4 becomes >a production release? ? Or will there be such >complications that it would be best to perform yet another install (which >is smooth but slow on my set-up). > >Thanks in advance > > > > > >Glyn >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >