From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 12 22:26:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBC716A473 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:26:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C453D13C46C for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:26:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so250871nzf for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:26:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pza9v2hPIaItGFVmV7CpG7TDSu+vPL/yHTdjnI4twhGE53yazVpJI8q16N4DSv4s7/NPG+kAc9PE4yOKCeIfEmbxKoiRYokylaOvFqYozCTQe+dekcvkSSkxHcUcoSmZ1HnShR5i7lrHg4MSZYFjwbTPbGySxHQo+Fn/UhCrQe0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AI34M5d2q7perRmmvNZEXxqqKWrWWr7rnfEryOMYQ1hKiESwP5SNiICwf4VJWAohju4yReHrNKpwvUJADBoJKQtHXcnSWtknRVjmYNtFhHVMphS/w3FpcSDmHxz9N2+pD4yFlKRL0Dn+wOuONrZS9e4ELS6beD/ESyAV3oLM8yU= Received: by 10.64.233.12 with SMTP id f12mr1883038qbh.1184277758760; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:02:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.145.20 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:02:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57d710000707121502r4eb7503bm64360daf84fdaaf9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:02:38 -0700 From: "pete wright" To: "Brett Glass" In-Reply-To: <200707121631.KAA13394@lariat.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200707121631.KAA13394@lariat.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best release or snapshot to install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:26:46 -0000 On 7/12/07, Brett Glass 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