Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:11:39 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am confused about tracking stable Message-ID: <3A699C9B.DADCF907@mail.iowna.com> References: <01012000204800.03036@buffy> <20010119154538.A13324@citusc17.usc.edu> <3A68D275.BB416780@mail.iowna.com> <01012012221700.01091@buffy>
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Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Saturday 20 January 2001 00:49, Bill Moran wrote: > > 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. > > > Ok. > I have CD of 4.2. release > If I want to go from 4.0 release -> 4.2 release with this CD.. > is this posible .. my experience of OS updates over many years > is not pleasant. I mean updates in place so to speak, rather than a > completely new install and post-resurrection of my configuration. I've been tracking the system pretty regularly since 3.0. The changes between 4.0 and 4.2 have been pretty minor (from a users point of view) I would bet that you can go from 4.0 to 4.2 with no trouble at all. However, read through the release notes prior, just to see what's changed. I think you'll see that most of it is added hardware support. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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