Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:36:46 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Noob question .... Message-ID: <20141016013646.34d542e6.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <543F041D.7030206@hiwaay.net> References: <543F041D.7030206@hiwaay.net>
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:32:45 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > As a card-carrying noob to FreeBSD, I have a question .... Recent posts > have referred to version 9.3-STABLE of FreeBSD .... My uname output > appears below, obviously labeled RELEASE, not STABLE .... How do I > 'upgrade' from 9.3-RELEASE to 9.3-STABLE ? By checking out the required source and rebuilding your kernel and operating system. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/synching.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html Also see the comment header of /usr/src/Makefile which provides a short description of the targets and the updating procedure. However, you can use freebsd-update to binarily track security changes for the -RELEASE branch, keeping your system current. Note that -STABLE is a development branch, and even though it's stable, there _might_ be problems with it. The most experimental branch is -CURRENT or -HEAD from which -STABLE is "distilled", and from that, -RELEASE is usually being created. > [wam@kabini1, ~, 3:44:36pm] 404 % uname -a; date > FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu > Jul 10 23:44:39 UTC 2014 > root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > Wed Oct 15 18:28:06 CDT 2014 > [wam@kabini1, ~, 6:28:06pm] 405 % That's quite current. I don't think using -STABLE improves your situation much - except of course you need very "bleeding edge" features which are not available for -RELEASE yet... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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