From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 21:12:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9731065675 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:12:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rrborg@speakeasy.net) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379568FC0A for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31066 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2010 21:12:57 -0000 Received: from c-67-187-169-218.hsd1.ca.comcast.net (HELO [192.168.1.141]) (rrborg@[67.187.169.218]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Aug 2010 21:12:57 -0000 Message-ID: <4C6463D9.7020902@speakeasy.net> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:12:57 -0700 From: Rocky Borg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4C645D9A.3010307@nagual.nl> <20100812225348.4fcbae98.freebsd@edvax.de> <4C646149.6060803@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <4C646149.6060803@nagual.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: releases, branches,.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:12:58 -0000 On 8/12/2010 2:02 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On 12-8-2010 22:53, Polytropon wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200, Dick Hoogendijk >> wrote: >>> I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? >>> Which brach do I follow? >> In this case, use "freebsd-update" to track -RELEASE; you will >> get the security patches by binary updating, e. g. you can use >> this tool to get from 8.1-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE-p1 without the >> need to compile anything. >> >> See "man freebsd-update" for details. > Thank you. I will follow RELEASE than. Also a thanks to Svein. ;-) Is > RELEASE automaticaly set in a fresh FreeBSD install or do I need to > change anything? > uname -raa freebsd-update will update that version you have installed (so yes RELEASE in a fresh install) only with security patches. If a new version comes out you want to upgrade to you would do something like freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.3-RELEASE