From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 19:30:52 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 6371816A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:30:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8321043D49 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:30:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CKMAc-0002Es-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:30:50 +0200 Received: from 216.223.161.50 ([216.223.161.50]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:30:50 +0200 Received: from kkobb by 216.223.161.50 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:30:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Kevin Kobb Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:15:27 -0500 Lines: 52 Message-ID: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.223.161.50 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4175D257.7010504@daleco.biz> Sender: news 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 19:30:52 -0000 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?