Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:49:59 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Glenn Sieb <ges@wingfoot.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system... Message-ID: <4175D257.7010504@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4175CA60.1060907@wingfoot.org> References: <417579FB.6090805@wingfoot.org> <20041019213837.GB822@alex.lan> <41758B49.8040205@wingfoot.org> <20041020010116.GC822@alex.lan> <4175CA60.1060907@wingfoot.org>
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Glenn Sieb wrote: > 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. > Just for general information: Bruce Mah has a fine article, entitled "FreeBSD 5.3-BETA Migration Guide". Worth a read for anyone moving from anywhere towards 5.3-RELEASE, IMO. http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html Kevin Kinsey
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