Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:50:14 -0400 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> To: "Galella, Anthony" <anthony.galella@intel.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.6.2 a point release or full release? Message-ID: <20020923145014.GA37987@constans.gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <59F55CE047A6D51196360002A534A4AC0365B4B4@pysmsx102.py.intel.com> References: <59F55CE047A6D51196360002A534A4AC0365B4B4@pysmsx102.py.intel.com>
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:32:06AM -0400, Galella, Anthony wrote:
> In the release notes, it says "This distribution of FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE is
> a ``point release'' "
a point release - the previous release with security/significant bug fixes
that are significant enough that the release engineers and
the developer community saw the need for a release with
the necessary fixes.
>
> Does this mean you need to "upgrade" a 4.6 machine to 4.6.2 ?
It is highly recommended that a 4.6-RELEASE machine be upgraded to 4.6.2,
unless the 4.6 machine is not connected to a network and is sitting it a darke
room without power. :)
> If this is the case, why do the iso's allow a full install. (I just
> installed 4.6.2 on a machine with a blank hard disk) I guess parts will be
> missing?
4.6.2 is a full release, all -RELEASE's are full releases. It is 4.6-RELEASE
with some fixes that needed to be made (security fixes found after -RELEASE
that were significant enough to need an update to the original -RELEASE).
>
> Could someone clarify? This may have been covered awhile ago, but I seem to
> have missed it, and cannot find an answer in the archives.
It is in the archives.
>
>
> Thanks
> Anthony J. Galella
> anthony.galella@intel.com
>
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