From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 8:42:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from user.nunanet.com (user.nunanet.com [199.247.47.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582AC37B408 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from nia.nunanet.com (nia.nunanet.com [199.247.47.10]) by user.nunanet.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA18725 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:42:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:41:33 -0500 (EST) From: Marcel Mason To: Subject: Re: CVSUP 3.0-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20011029094142.00fa6e38@mail.sage-american.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 The general advice I remember getting regarding csvup was that it's not necessarily a good idea to use it to move between whole number releases (eg 3.x -> 4.x) although quite frankly the reasons for this were fairly unclear. Are there in fact serious issues with doing this and would they be compounded by not only going from 3.x -> 4.x but moving from RELEASE to STABLE at the same time? It would be the preferable option to have all boxes running the same release. Marcel On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > Unless you are too concerned about the box, I'd back it up real good and > then do the cvsup to ver 4.4 Stable....great version with all the up to > date stuff. Then you could consider the Current if you feel like it... > that's just my opinion though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message