From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 14 21:22: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from inord.no (oluf.et-n.no [213.161.160.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F62237B407 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 21:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from erik [213.161.168.206] by inord.no with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id A134F450056; Wed, 15 May 2002 06:16:52 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Erik_Paulsen_Sk=E5lerud?= To: "'Victor R. Cardona'" , "'Albert Martinez'" Cc: Subject: RE: freebsd update tag? Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 06:20:51 +0200 Message-ID: <004c01c1fbc7$e608bac0$cea8a1d5@erik> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: <20020515035830.GA21696@spastic.siue.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I belevie RELENG_4_5 is what he's searching for, he was asking about a branch where commits are safe (oh well, as safe it can get), not -STABLE wich isn't pointed for production systems. Albert, look at this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Erik. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Victor R. Cardona Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:59 AM To: Albert Martinez Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd update tag? On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:22:11PM -0400, Albert Martinez wrote: > Hi, I recently installed freebsd 4.5 cd release. I use openbsd which > uses it's stable branch to apply security fixes, bug fixes, and other > safe changes. Obviousely freebsd stable does not fullfill the same > roll. Is there an equvalent in freebsd to openbsd stable? Or, put > another way, how can I cvsup important changes to my freebsd 4.5 cd > release? I was looking around the cvsweb and noticed RELENG_4_5_BP. > What is it? FreeBSD stable does what you want. Use the stable supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup to grab the latest stable sources. Victor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message