Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:15:27 -0500 From: Kevin Kobb <kkobb@skylinecorp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system... Message-ID: <cl6dgp$6v9$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4175D257.7010504@daleco.biz> References: <417579FB.6090805@wingfoot.org> <20041019213837.GB822@alex.lan> <41758B49.8040205@wingfoot.org> <20041020010116.GC822@alex.lan> <4175CA60.1060907@wingfoot.org> <4175D257.7010504@daleco.biz>
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > 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) >> >> In cvsup-supfile speak for those of us using cvsup to sync our source >> trees >> >> Thanks for the advice, Alex! :) >> >> Best, >> G. >> > > Just for general information: Bruce Mah has a fine article, > entitled "FreeBSD 5.3-BETA Migration Guide". Worth a read > for anyone moving from anywhere towards 5.3-RELEASE, IMO. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html > > Kevin Kinsey > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Please forgive my ignorance, but I am looking at the 5.3 Migration Guide, through the link you provided and have a question. Under section 5.2 source upgrade it says: "To check out 5.3-RELEASE from the FreeBSD CVS repository, use the RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE tag. For the 5.3 release and security fix branch, use the RELENG_5_3 tag. To track the FreeBSD 5-STABLE development branch, use the RELENG_5 branch tag." I understand the RELENG_5_3 and RELENG_5 tags, but am hazy about the RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE tag meaning. Is this a static branch frozen at a particular date? For a production box, is this the way to go?
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