From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 09:13:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F183616A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:13:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from limicola.its.uu.se (limicola.its.uu.se [130.238.7.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7093843D2D for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:13:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ante@Update.UU.SE) Received: by limicola.its.uu.se (Postfix, from userid 205) id 3207648D4; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:13:07 +0100 (MEZ) Received: from limicola.its.uu.se(127.0.0.1) by limicola.its.uu.se via virus-scan id s131079; Mon, 21 Mar 05 10:12:55 +0100 Received: from Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE (Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE [130.238.19.25]) by limicola.its.uu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD9C492B; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:12:53 +0100 (MEZ) Received: by Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE (Postfix, from userid 30086) id 6B3D238012; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:12:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652FE5C002; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:12:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:12:53 +0100 (CET) From: Andreas Davour To: Christopher San Diego In-Reply-To: <87acoxms93.fsf@sid.sandiego.loc> Message-ID: References: <87acoxms93.fsf@sid.sandiego.loc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:13:12 -0000 On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Christopher San Diego wrote: > I'm a confused newbie whose been (re)installing FreeBSD 5.3 Release > for the past week or two. > > I've read the handbook and various other documents concerning updating > FreeBSD only to learn that -STABLE and -CURRENT are both development > branches. Take a look at what RELENG_5 and RELENG_5_3 means. That might make it clearer for you what release you want to track. RELENG_5 gets you a stable system with developments (5.4), RELENG_5_3 will get you a stable system with important fixes (5.3) last time I looked. CURRENT is some version of 6.0 or other. The difference in a major release number might give you an idea of which you'd like to follow. I never understood those CURRENT, STABLE or WHATEVER either. But, learn about what RELENG you'll need and I think you'll be fine. There are a lot of good webpages out there, and some official documentation on what the different branches means. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?