From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 09:40:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D5C16A588 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:40:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp15.wxs.nl (smtp15.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC3743D3F for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:40:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp15.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I5V00B85MUSBE@smtp15.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:40:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9K9e4sf010031; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:40:04 +0200 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9K9e331010030; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:40:03 +0200 Content-return: prohibited Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:40:03 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <4175CA60.1060907@wingfoot.org> To: Glenn Sieb Message-id: <20041020094003.GA834@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <417579FB.6090805@wingfoot.org> <20041019213837.GB822@alex.lan> <41758B49.8040205@wingfoot.org> <20041020010116.GC822@alex.lan> <4175CA60.1060907@wingfoot.org> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:40:23 -0000 On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:16:00PM -0400, 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) Yes, thats what I mean. I didn't check the tags so I didn't get them rigth. Even following RELENG_5_X doesn't mean things never gets broken. The xl nic driver was broken in RELEASE_4_5 which meant I coudn't use the net. :'( So its also a good idee to save a working source (/usr/src) before updating to a new release. (But there's no gurantee you can downgrade, i think) I never had any trouble with the other releases. Its just a case of bad luck. > In cvsup-supfile speak for those of us using cvsup to sync our source trees Those of us who updates there source usaly use cvs. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/