Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:39:09 -0700 From: Erick Mechler <emechler@techometer.net> To: Warner Joseph <Joseph.Warner@siemens.com> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 2 Questions Message-ID: <20030808163909.GE427@techometer.net> In-Reply-To: <DAF0948B1D3A2D4080988C683F6BD90703797C3F@MLVV9MBE.usmlvv1p0a.smshsc.net> References: <DAF0948B1D3A2D4080988C683F6BD90703797C3F@MLVV9MBE.usmlvv1p0a.smshsc.net>
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:: Just two quick questions: :: :: 1. Would it be possible or difficult to upgrade FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE to :: 5.2 -STABLE when it comes out? Difficult (without completely rebuilding your system and doing a binary upgrade). Source upgrades, while they will work, will leave a lot of unnecessary remnants of 4.x on your box. :: 2. Which is the best for a production environment, -STABLE or -RELEASE :: Someone told me they think the latter is better because it doesn't :: require as much downtime for an upgrade. Both systems require the same amount of time to upgrade, so that's not the issue. The issue is what sort of changes you want to make to your production box. If you track -STABLE then you'll get bug fixes, new features, etc. If you track one of the Security branches, then you'll only get security fixes with no new features. Check out the Handbook on information about what -STABLE actually means: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html And the definition of all the CVS tags in use today: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Cheers - Erickhelp
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