From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 05:48:26 2005 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 CB62816A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 05:48:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E1943D78 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 05:48:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from umeglic@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so783849nzk for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 22:48:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nKVGlJZyM5RfXO9qCEKAGeDEF6jHfNl8/E/0wYDE9kIXUm8VaD3pjJxUcHajN+Draa2WYrNCi9+LS4/yi7lt5YuvkUEchb4qkO/PwxWAmJ4EbTlCXIyq3YqrwVqxb98rizt/m7+ycSYDl1qa33ozApBe+A5jbYYPk9ssX/rjSv8= Received: by 10.36.121.5 with SMTP id t5mr515976nzc; Wed, 11 May 2005 22:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.96.4 with HTTP; Wed, 11 May 2005 22:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <515659fd0505112248103f0fee@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 07:48:26 +0200 From: Nekdo Nekje To: Alex Zbyslaw In-Reply-To: <4281DF22.7060100@dial.pipex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <515659fd050511000010098a6f@mail.gmail.com> <20050511074420.GB97896@xor.obsecurity.org> <4281DF22.7060100@dial.pipex.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using 5-STABLE packages with 5.4 RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nekdo Nekje List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 05:48:26 -0000 On 5/11/05, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Nekdo Nekje wrote: > > > > > >>My question is... Is it possible to use the latest Samba package with > >>the 5.4-RELEASE? Is it absolutely necessary to upgrade the RELEASE > >>distibution to -STABLE for that to work? Is using a package from the > >>STABLE ports tree with the RELEASE system an insane thing to do? > >> > >> > >It's mostly expected to work, although some packages are tied to a > >particular kernel version and may not work on systems other than that > >for which they were built. samba should be fine though. > > > > > I've never had a problem with a port that was related running > -RELEASE(*). The likelihood of this happening is really quite slim. > Many, many people run -RELEASE versions because they want the stability, > and because not all machines can be rebooted at whim. All these people > have tons of ports installed, which they more than likely keep up to date= . >=20 > I'm sure Kris is correct that, in theory, some port could fail on a > -RELEASE version, but it really is very unlikely. It is very much more > unlikely with something like samba which runs on many different > operating systems. In short, keep your ports up to date! (But read > /usr/ports/UPDATING). >=20 > (*) Actually, I mean RELENG whatever. Check out the handbook on using > cvsup to keep your version of FreeBSD up to date with respect to > security patches, rather than the more general fixing and improving that > goes into STABLE or CURRENT. >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html >=20 Thanks.... I will do that.... Best regards, Uros