Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:57:39 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: downgrade 4.11-stable to 4.11R Message-ID: <20050331195739.GA13699@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050331214653.00f1a0e8.dick@nagual.st> References: <20050331212647.74d97d11.dick@nagual.st> <4dd69365db659052caf239497ca31f56@mac.com> <20050331214653.00f1a0e8.dick@nagual.st>
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:46:53PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:31:27 -0500 > Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 31, 2005, at 2:26 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > Is it possible to go back to 4.11R if you've updated src to > > > 4.11-stable first and updated sthe system w/ make buildworld, > > > install.. > > > > > > If I put the 4.11R sources back in /usr/src and do a make/build > > > etc.. again will my fbsd system really be 4.11R again without soem > > > 'nasty' traces of the update? > > > > Switch to using RELENG_4_11_RELEASE as your cvsup tag, and you can > > revert your sources back. You'll be missing the recent security > > patch, though-- using RELENG_4_11 might be better. > > > > Why do you want to revert back to the older sources? > > RELENG_4_11 was the idea. Why I want back? I want my server on the > internet to be as secure as it can be and for what I understand 4.11 is > safer to use as 4-stable (in which always can sneak in little bugs, or > is this to paranoid?) Although there is a small *possibility* that some bug has managed to sneak in to RELENG_4 that is not present in RELENG_4_11, you should contrast this to the *fact* that there are bugs which has been fixed in RELENG_4, but which has not been - and will not be - fixed in RELENG_4_11. That being said, in terms of security there is probably no difference whatsoever between RELENG_4 and RELENG_4_11 and going back to RELENG_4_11 from RELENG_4 for security reasons is mostly just a waste of time and energy. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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