Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:49:09 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am confused about tracking stable Message-ID: <3A68D275.BB416780@mail.iowna.com> References: <01012000204800.03036@buffy> <20010119154538.A13324@citusc17.usc.edu>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:20:48AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello > > I have a 4.0 RELEASE installation. > > Is tracking STABLE meaningful, since the latest release is 4.2 > > Imagine 4.x-RELEASE a single point along a long line called "FreeBSD > 4.x-STABLE". In other words, every now and then we take a snapshot of > the current state of the 4.x branch, and call it 4.y-RELEASE. The name > "4.x-STABLE" means "the 4.x branch after the release of 4.x-RELEASE > but before 4.(x+1)-RELEASE". So the only difference between > 4.0-RELEASE and 4.2-RELEASE is that the latter is a much newer version > of the 4.x codebase. So what you want is in fact to update to > 4.2-STABLE. As a side note, it is possible (should you want to ) to update to the last 4.1-STABLE that existed before 4.2-RELEASE was announced. Read the man pages on cvsup. However, I don't personally see the use in this, if you're going to upgrade, go to the latest 4.x version. The reason I use it is for updating my production servers. I have a test machine that I update to the latest -STABLE, and then test for a week. If everything goes fine, I then upgrade any production servers I want to upgrade to that EXACT version that I tested (using date tags.) Paranoid, I know, but I'm too lazy to fix things after the fact. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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