Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:39:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Justin R. Miller" <incanus@codesorcery.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-release -- how often do ISOs change? Message-ID: <20020423213922.GC14808@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020423191658.GH28391@mithrandir.codesorcery.net> References: <001c01c1eae1$96291320$6b01a8c0@CITYMOUSE> <20020423170621.4320.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> <20020423191658.GH28391@mithrandir.codesorcery.net>
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On 2002-04-23 15:16, Justin R. Miller wrote:
> 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?
No, you won't need to upgrade to 4.5-RELEASE. You probably have read
that you need to upgrade to 4.5-STABLE or `4.5-RELEASE plus security
fixes'. The version of the source that you get with 4.5-RELEASE is
the same version that is `tagged' in the official FreeBSD repository
of source with RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE. This is a "point along the
RELENG_4 branch".
In the first case, you need to update to the RELENG_4 version of the
sources. This will give you the latest source of the 4.x branch.
In the latter case, you will upgrade to the RELENG_4_5 version of the
source (note the extra _5 at the end of the source version). This is
a version of the source that changes less often than the RELENG_4 code
and includes only security fixes for 4.5-RELEASE.
All this is hopefully explained in more detail in the Handbook. Look
at the "Cutting Edge" chapter.
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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