From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 15:52:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF57737B402; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0JNnZ705747; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:49:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A68D275.BB416780@mail.iowna.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:49:09 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am confused about tracking stable References: <01012000204800.03036@buffy> <20010119154538.A13324@citusc17.usc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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