From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 11:35:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E677016A400 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:35:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@owl.midgard.homeip.net) Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6267D43D45 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:35:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erikt@owl.midgard.homeip.net) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (83.253.29.241) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.070) id 43F9B8E900782605 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:35:44 +0100 Received: (qmail 95601 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2006 12:35:44 +0100 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 23 Mar 2006 12:35:43 +0100 Received: (qmail 46357 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Mar 2006 12:35:43 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:35:43 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Andreas Davour Message-ID: <20060323113543.GA46324@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Andreas Davour , Kris Kennaway , daniel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200603221334.14500.danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> <20060322184325.GA23900@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060323003359.GA42480@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: daniel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Upgrading to n-STABLE or RELENG_x 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, 23 Mar 2006 11:35:46 -0000 On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:16:23PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > >>On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:34:14PM -0500, daniel wrote: > >>>>FreeBSD will occasionally release security advisories detailing the > >>>>badness > >>>>surrounding a single package and will often include the following as the > >>>>solution: > >>>> > >>>> 1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4-STABLE, 5-STABLE, or 6-STABLE, > >>>> or to the RELENG_6_0, RELENG_5_4, RELENG_5_3, RELENG_4_11, or > >>>> RELENG_4_10 security branch dated after the correction date. > >>>> > >>>>What does this mean? And how do I do it? > >>> > >>>Both questions are answered in the handbook. > >> > >>They are, but why is 6-STABLE even mentioned since RELENG_6 is the cvs > >>tag? Or are there a 6-STABLE tag as well? > > > >They are different names for the same thing. > > Let me rephrase it. Is it not uneccesary to mention 6-STABLE, since > RELENG_6 is the same thing, and the only string you'll ever use when > doing the upgrade the advisory advice is in fact "RELENG_6"? If RELENG_6 had been mentioned in the quote above it would have been unnecessary to also mention 6-STABLE, but since RELENG_6 was not mentioned, it was not redundant to mention 6-STABLE. One could argue that RELENG_6 should be used *instead* of 6-STABLE, but that is another question. > > It seems redundant, as they are as you say just different names for the > same thing, but RELENG_6 is the only one actually used when cvsup'ing? > > Maybe freebsd-question is not the right forum for this discussion > anyway. If it relates to FreeBSD, and you are not sure which is the right place to ask a question, then freebsd-questions@ is the right place. (If it belongs elsewhere somebody will probably direct you there.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se