From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 6:14:37 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 CB4EA37B400; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 06:14:18 -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 f0KEBx727335; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:12:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A699C9B.DADCF907@mail.iowna.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:11:39 -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: Cliff Sarginson Cc: Kris Kennaway , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am confused about tracking stable References: <01012000204800.03036@buffy> <20010119154538.A13324@citusc17.usc.edu> <3A68D275.BB416780@mail.iowna.com> <01012012221700.01091@buffy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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