From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 9:18:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BD437B43C for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3NGI4I03170 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:18:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h53n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.53]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA09225 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:18:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 7440 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Apr 2002 16:18:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:18:02 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Greg Brooks Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5-release -- how often do ISOs change? Message-ID: <20020423161802.GA7424@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Greg Brooks , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <001c01c1eae1$96291320$6b01a8c0@CITYMOUSE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001c01c1eae1$96291320$6b01a8c0@CITYMOUSE> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Greg Brooks wrote: > Folks, > > I have a FreeBSD 4.5-release ISO that I downloaded about three months > ago. I burned it to CD and used it to set up some boxes with no > problems. Now, a couple of months down the road, I can use it to set up > a new box, but the initial cvsup and portupgrade processes can be a bit > hairy. > > My question: If I download the 4.5 ISO now, will it have a more > up-to-date ports tree, or are the ISOs updated only rarely? Is there a > particular FTP site that's changing out the 4.5-release ISO more often > than others? The -RELEASE ISOs are normally never updated. If it says 4.5-RELEASE it is indeed exactly that release and not something later. If you want fresher ISOs you will have to wait until 4.6 is released or see if you can find someplace having snapshots of 4-STABLE as ISOs. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message