From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 31 23:54:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-187.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEE7A37B405 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 23:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 621B166B8B; Fri, 31 May 2002 23:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 23:54:42 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Elden Fenison Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jesper Gertz Subject: Re: 4.5 RELEASE and fresh ports Message-ID: <20020531235442.A60067@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020521121620.JQOG23576.fepE.post.tele.dk@fepD.im.tele.dk> <20020531225410.A30049@snoopy.moondog.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020531225410.A30049@snoopy.moondog.org>; from efbsd@moondog.org on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:10PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:10PM -0700, Elden Fenison wrote: > * Jesper Gertz [05/21/2002 14:16]: > > On my 4.5 RELEASE I have installed the ports hierarchy from RELEASE CD= ROM. > > Am I then supposed to upgrade my 4.5 RELEASE to 4.5 STABLE ? >=20 > It's seems that no one has answered this, so I'll give it a shot. The > answer is no... the operating system source tree is completely separate > from the ports tree. You can leave your operating system source at 4.5 > release and still cvsup your ports tree daily. There is a great tool in > ports called "portupgrade"... it is great for installing and upgrading > ports... and also notifying you when you have installed ports that are > out of date. Not quite. The ports collection only officially supports -stable and -current, so you may run into problems from time to time if the ports collection starts making use of new features introduced into newer versions of the OS. This doesn't happen very often, but it does happen. Kris --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8+G+xWry0BWjoQKURAsoAAKD+LawAf/Se/CMPQnoZpJX+xCQeeQCfWe8v hwbYAxKAyHoHA16TG+so2M4= =WNdy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message