From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 3:56:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E961B37B651 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 03:56:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 18025 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2000 10:56:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 22 Apr 2000 10:56:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 3264 invoked by uid 211); 22 Apr 2000 10:56:14 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 16:26:14 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Andy Coates Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE and 3.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20000422162613.A3227@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Andy Coates , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <013501bfac47$4bf81bf0$0100a8c0@blade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <013501bfac47$4bf81bf0$0100a8c0@blade>; from andy@friends-tv.net on Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 11:41:17AM +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I recently obtained the 3.4-RELEASE ISO and installed that on my system. I'm > now a little confused with regards to the 3.4-STABLE release - am I right in > thinking that the RELEASE was a snapshot of STABLE at a certain point (Dec > 1999)? Yes. Except that before 3.4-RELEASE was made, the stable tree was called 3.3-STABLE. > If this is the case, and I wish to make my system STABLE, are there any > listings of the files which have been changed since RELEASE, so I don't have > to get *all* the files? The easiest and quickest way to upgrade your source tree is via cvsup. See the handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html which, if you installed the docs, should also be there on your machine in /usr/share/doc/handbook/ Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message