Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:56:49 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1 -> 8.3 Message-ID: <k32c0g$ao5$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <7FB6587CC36F4140A852E74D9DFE4512@yahoo.com>
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Laszlo Danielisz wrote: > Hey Guys, > > If I want to upgrade from 8.1-RELEASE-p11 to 8.3 do I need to also update > installed packages? One more thing: by when has 8.3 release maintenance? > Maybe I'm blind but I haven't found the date on freebsd.org > When updating within a major release version such as 8.1 to 8.x the ABI is stable and remains the same so it is not necessary to update the third party packages/ports. It becomes necessary to rebuild/update whenever changing from one major release to another, such as from 8.x to 9.x for example. If you use csup and a supfile to update src, just use tag=RELENG_8_3 to pull in the security maintenance release bits. Currently it is at P4. -Mike
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