From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 12:36:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B8D37B404 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3NJaFP9069626; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:36:15 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3NJaFBd069625; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:36:15 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:36:15 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Justin R. Miller" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-release -- how often do ISOs change? Message-ID: <20020424073615.B69537@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <001c01c1eae1$96291320$6b01a8c0@CITYMOUSE> <20020423170621.4320.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> <20020423191658.GH28391@mithrandir.codesorcery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020423191658.GH28391@mithrandir.codesorcery.net>; from incanus@codesorcery.net on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:16:58PM -0400 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 03:16:58PM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: [...] > 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? It's actually referring to the RELENG_4_5 CVS tag, which only updates -RELEASE for critical bug fixes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message