Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 21:38:50 +0200 From: Olivier Tharan <olive@oban.frmug.org> To: Brian Smith <smitho@mantech-wva.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie upgrading question Message-ID: <40B4F24A.8070503@oban.frmug.org> In-Reply-To: <FLEJKNBKECDIECDJMFGPCEGGCDAA.smitho@mantech-wva.com> References: <FLEJKNBKECDIECDJMFGPCEGGCDAA.smitho@mantech-wva.com>
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Brian Smith wrote: > 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? There is no such thing as 4.8-STABLE. You either get 4.8-RELEASE, with the RELENG_4_8 tag, and you pick up the security updates associated with this release; or you get -STABLE (with the RELENG_4 tag), which is FreeBSD-4 still evolving -- mostly bug fixes, security updates, backports from -CURRENT for new device drivers. Once in a while, -STABLE is frozen to a -RELEASE, the latest one being 4.10. Then, -STABLE development goes on. olive
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