From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 13:09:03 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 1C85416A47B for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:09:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD79243D49 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:09:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k5ND91YM034536 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:09:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:08:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200606222309.38096.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <09359E1D-CCE1-4609-9158-41A4EE5CA4BE@shire.net> <200606222346.10640.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <200606222346.10640.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606230908.45655.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: from STABLE to RELENG? 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: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:09:03 -0000 On Friday 23 June 2006 00:46, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 23:16, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > > generally, how risky of an operation is it to change the branch im > > > following > > > (assuming i have a server in good working order)? > > > > > > i think i would now prefer to start following RELENG on my > > > production servers > > > instead of STABLE (not that im having any issues), so that i can > > > keep up with > > > patchlevels of specific servers a little easier. > > > > That easiest if you do it at a version change. Say, for example, 6.0- > > STABLE to 6.1-RELEASE or similar. > > > well i would be attempting a 6.1-STABLE to 6.1-RELENG. i have a dev box i > think im going to give it a go on, and see what happens. if this one > doesnt go well, ill just wait until the next RELEASE increments to the > next. If you were going the other direction (from a pre-6.1 -STABLE to 6.1 or from 6.1 to today's -STABLE) it'd be a no-brainer. Even so, I'd be surprised if you had any issues going "backwards", since it is still a rather small step. JN