Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:02:38 -0700 From: "pete wright" <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best release or snapshot to install? Message-ID: <57d710000707121502r4eb7503bm64360daf84fdaaf9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200707121631.KAA13394@lariat.net> References: <200707121631.KAA13394@lariat.net>
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On 7/12/07, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote: > We have a FreeBSD 6.0 server that needs upgrading. This is a > production server, and it needs to be stable. There is no > posted date for 6.3-RELEASE, so we're looking for a good > snapshot to install -- preferably a known good build from > 6-STABLE or a build of the security branch of the tree. > This would be for a 386-architecture machine. Recommendations? > Also, when is 6.3-RELEASE (which will hopefully incorporate > a bunch of MFCed improvements from CURRENT) likely to happen? > 6.2-RELEASE is the latest stable branch. you should be able to upgrade your world to this release with little problems. going from 6.2-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE should be trivial, and any gotcha's should be documented in /usr/src/UPDATE. the latest patch level of 6.2-RELEASE should include all security updates, and bug fixes (as should 6.0-RELEASE/6.1-RELEASE/etc. i do not think snapshot's have gone through the same amount of regression testing as official releases, so you may not want to use those in production environments. -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
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