From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 02:16:29 2004 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 DD0B916A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:16:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FC543D5C for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:16:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259AB1F44B4; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:16:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 96159-10; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:16:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [64.32.179.50]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91EB1F44B3; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:16:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4175CA60.1060907@wingfoot.org> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:16:00 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Thunderbird/0.8 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex de Kruijff , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <417579FB.6090805@wingfoot.org> <20041019213837.GB822@alex.lan> <41758B49.8040205@wingfoot.org> <20041020010116.GC822@alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <20041020010116.GC822@alex.lan> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at wingfoot.org Subject: Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system... 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, 20 Oct 2004 02:16:30 -0000 Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM: >Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most >reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but >5-RELENG > > To help ease frustration and such.. you mean: Follow RELENG_5_2 not RELENG_5 (from: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html) In cvsup-supfile speak for those of us using cvsup to sync our source trees Thanks for the advice, Alex! :) Best, G. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759