From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 13:48:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0259516A41C for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:48:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C2B43D48 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:48:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:48:42 +0100 Message-ID: <42B81A90.9030808@dial.pipex.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:48:00 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Khanh Cao Van References: <5fd642fc050620191670837b21@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5fd642fc050620191670837b21@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jun 2005 13:48:42.0435 (UTC) FILETIME=[EFA73930:01C57667] Cc: freebsd-stable-list Subject: Re: howto update freebsd 4.7 release to 4.7 stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:48:03 -0000 Khanh Cao Van wrote: >My custom use freeBSD 4.7 release and ask me to install JDK1.4 on it . >But when I use ports to compile JDK , the system show me a message : > >You must have a version of FreeBSD later than 4.7-STABLE February 2003 >or 5-CURRENT February 2003 to compile and use JDK 1.4.2. > >So I have to update my 4.7 release to 4.7 stable . But I do not know >how to do make it . I've looking everywhere but could not find any >clear document about it . Please help me ! > > AFAIK there is no such thing as 4.7-STABLE, just 4-STABLE and the handbook page on tags bears this out. (4-STABLE would be improvements from the *latest* 4 release which is 4.11. If you won't go to 4.8 then 4-STABLE is the stuff of your nightmares. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html says: RELENG_4 The line of development for FreeBSD-4.X, also known as FreeBSD 4-STABLE >PS : I'm not going to upgrade my kernel 4.7 to 4.8 or anything else , >just 4.7 only . Thank for reading ! > No-one here can stop you shooting yourself in the foot. The release engineering page clearly states: > FreeBSD 4.7 security fix branch (not officially supported). so I guess you are own your own. Not upgrading a critical machine to 5.X I could understand, but not upgrading from 4.7 another 4.X release I find incomprehensible. --Alex