From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 7:50:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409E237B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:50:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [216.187.105.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E8F43E6A for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from gldis.ca (gldisater@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8NEoEBj038425; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:50:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: (from gldisater@localhost) by gldis.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g8NEoEjb038424; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:50:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:50:14 -0400 From: Jeremy Faulkner To: "Galella, Anthony" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.6.2 a point release or full release? Message-ID: <20020923145014.GA37987@constans.gldis.ca> References: <59F55CE047A6D51196360002A534A4AC0365B4B4@pysmsx102.py.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <59F55CE047A6D51196360002A534A4AC0365B4B4@pysmsx102.py.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message