From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 5:57:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-117.telepath.com [216.14.0.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C367B37B422 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 05:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 64123 invoked by uid 100); 11 Sep 2000 12:56:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14780.54919.871891.972565@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 07:56:39 -0500 (CDT) To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Difference between FreeBSD 3.5.1 and FreeBSD 3.5.0? In-Reply-To: <133375171@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan M. Slivko writes: > Can someone please tell me approximately what the differences are > between FreeBSD 3.5.1 and FreeBSD 3.5.0 are? I upgraded my machine which > was running FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE with the 3.5.0 CVSup. and now my uname > - -a is showing this: > FreeBSD trinity.tech-newz.com 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE #1: Sun Sep > 10 13:05:53 EDT 2000 > root@trinity.tech-newz.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/TRINITY i386 To answer the question you asked: 3.5.1 is a 3.5 release that included a showstopper bug fix. I forget the details. Security does come to mind. > I would appreciate an email telling me that there is no security fixes > or anything else important that I missed by upgrading to the wrong > branch.. -- Jonathan M. Slivko To answer the real question: You didn't upgrade to the wrong branch. 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 are both snapshots of 3.5-STABLE. If you cvsupped a version after the 3.5.1 release date, then the system you're running is 3.5.1-RELEASE + fixes, which is presumably what you want. > P.S. Where/how do I delete the files that were downloaded? They are > clogging up my hard drive. Since what you downloaded was an update to what you had already installed, deleting them would involve deleting the OS. However, if you've already built and installed from sources, you can delete /usr/obj.