From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 12:36:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD8837B41A for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:36:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA30990; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:36:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC5B7A6.80706@owt.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:36:06 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Justin R. Miller" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-release -- how often do ISOs change? References: <001c01c1eae1$96291320$6b01a8c0@CITYMOUSE> <20020423170621.4320.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> <20020423191658.GH28391@mithrandir.codesorcery.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Justin R. Miller wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Said Giorgos Keramidas on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:06:21PM +0300: > > >>The ISO images that are under the 4.5-RELEASE directory are never >>updated after a release comes out. 4.5-RELEASE should always be the >>same ISO image that the original release has been made with. >> > > Maybe someone can help me out then... I have a 4.5-RELEASE system, and > I've seen security bulletins that say to upgrade to either 4.5-RELEASE > or to STABLE/CURRENT at a point on the branch after the fix. How will > "upgrading" to 4.5-RELEASE help me if it's the same thing? > The notices are usually talking about the fixes being in RELENG_4_5, which is the release plus security fixes. You can also upgrade a 4.5-release by adding the patches. I follow -stable, which is RELENG_4. It also contains other upgrades and fixes not deemed to be security related. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message