From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 15:49:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E611065689 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:49:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from hawk.thalamus.net (hawk.thalamus.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CF68FC15 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:49:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost.thalamus.net [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.thalamus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB56021B6DF for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:49:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thalamus.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 2.386 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.386 tagged_above=-999 required=4.2 tests=[AWL=-0.783, HELO_LH_HOME=3.169] Received: from hawk.thalamus.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hawk.thalamus.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3LlubLwDsldZ for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:49:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bljbsd01.homenet.home (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by hawk.thalamus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9528B21B25E for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:49:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48E0F8FB.1000906@eskk.nu> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:49:15 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080928) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <48E0C061.9010200@eskk.nu> <200809291654.05881.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <48E0EF10.6020702@eskk.nu> <200809291742.35226.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200809291742.35226.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Which mailing list? 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: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:49:22 -0000 Mel skrev: > On Monday 29 September 2008 17:06:56 Leslie Jensen wrote: >> Mel skrev: >>> On Monday 29 September 2008 13:47:45 Leslie Jensen wrote: >>>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE and I want to keep track on when >>>> it's updated so that I can upgrade. I'm on the freebsd-announce list but >>>> I'm not sure if it's the right list to follow for this purpose. >>>> /Leslie >>> If your intention is to know when 7.1-RELEASE is available and possibly >>> track security advisories afterwards, it is the correct list: >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2008-February/001172. >>> html >> Well, my intention is to be updated even on the prerelease. As I >> understand from the answers, it might be somewhat ambiguous. Do you >> recommend that I update once a week for example. I understand that not >> all modifications will affect me, some will of course others will not > > Depends what you want. Everything that goes on RELENG_7 branch currently, is a > bug fix. Each bug fix, has the risk of introducing a regression bug. > If you want to part of the process that tests this PRERELEASE and report any > bugs, confirming bugfixes etc, then you should track RELENG_7. Best way to do > that is to csup your system in the daily periodic(7). Then you can see if any > fixes have been comitted, and rebuild your system. > > If you simply want to know if your system still works, subscribe to announce > to know when to stop testing and to build the final release, and build > whenever you have time. > > The script below my sig, adds csup to daily, when adding > daily_csup_enable="YES" to /etc/periodic.conf and putting the proper csup > file in the proper loc and/or setting the variables in /etc/periodic.conf. > Thanks! I'll try it out. /Leslie