From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 22 21:41: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tecdigital.net (tecdigital.tol.itesm.mx [132.254.97.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7221F37B406 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 21:41:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from madd@tecdigital.net) Received: (qmail 2094 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2001 04:40:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Valk) (madd@148.243.246.74) by tecdigital.tol.itesm.mx with SMTP; 23 Jul 2001 04:40:58 -0000 Message-ID: <000201c11331$abed5eb0$0a00a8c0@Valk> From: "Mario Doria" To: , "Wayne Lubin" Cc: References: <20010723033348.38144.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> <20010722212854.E419@blossom.cjclark.org> Subject: Re: updating 4.2 release to 4.3 release Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:30:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Try RELENG_4_3, its just like -RELEASE but with all the security fixes included. Subscribe to the relevant mailing lists and update your system as needed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Wayne Lubin" Cc: Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 11:28 pm Subject: Re: updating 4.2 release to 4.3 release > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 08:33:48PM -0700, Wayne Lubin wrote: > > The documentation seems a bit confusing on this. > > Chapter 20 talks about how to update to either the > > current or stable versions. It also states that > > neither is as stable as the release version. So, if > > all I am interested in is upgrading to 4.3, and not so > > much interested in the less stable up to date > > versions, then shouldn't I be upgrading from my 4.2 > > release to 4.3 release? If so, then is the only way to > > do this to simply install 4.3 from scratch and thus > > erase all of my present config files and installed > > ports etc...? Chapter 20 does mention briefly that to > > go from release version to release version then one > > should "use the binary update mechanism". What is the > > binary mechanism and where is some documentation on > > it. > > > > A bit confused but ok :) > > You almost certainly want to update to STABLE due to a very important > security fix that occured since last RELEASE. > > The stablity of STABLE problems are usually over-hyped. When setting > up a new system, bring it up to STABLE, verify STABLE works how you > like AND THEN LEAVE IT BE UNLESS YOU NEED TO ADD A FEATURE OR SECURITY > FIX. A production system should only be upgraded when there is a > reason. Yes, STABLE breaks from time to time, but you shouldn't be > continually updating critical systems just for the heck of it. YMMV. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message