From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 14:37:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C7916A4CE for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 14:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out010.verizon.net (out010pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6690143D45 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 14:37:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.84.3]) by out010.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040515213715.MLGW1910.out010.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sat, 15 May 2004 16:37:15 -0500 Message-ID: <40A68DF5.3090904@mac.com> Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 17:39:01 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Carr References: <20040515211335.38321.qmail@web13527.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040515211335.38321.qmail@web13527.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Sat, 15 May 2004 16:37:15 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question re: eventual upgrade to 5-Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 21:37:17 -0000 Robert Carr wrote: > Is there any update as to when 5-stable might be > released? Is 5.3 expected to be forked as 5-Stable? The last I heard, yes, 5.3 is expected to become 5-STABLE. Release schedules are harder to call. :-/ > If I build a FreeBSD 5 server for home use (Postfix, > Apache) and use FreeBSD 5.2.x, is the upgrade path to > 5-stable expected to be as easy as cvs-up and > make-world, or would I have to re-format my HD and > re-install with 5-Stable? You ought to be able to cvsup and reinstall world to move from 5.2 to 5.3 without any special issues; no reformat needed. -- -Chuck