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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 08:11:02 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Old compiler (3.3-stable -> 4->stable)
Message-ID:  <20010518081102.A11489@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <3B048167.A8E6360D@nisser.com>; from roelof@nisser.com on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:56:55AM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105171143290.955-100000@srv2.any> <3B048167.A8E6360D@nisser.com>

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On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:56:55AM +0200, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> "Alexey V. Neyman" wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > Not only that, even 3.5.1-RELEASE fails to compile world for RELENG_4.
> > What about staying insecure for a few hours of make world on 4.2-RELEASE,
> > if this worries you, you may turn on firewall, either enabling only
> > trusted addresses or disabling all services in question, which were found
> > to be insecure in 4.2-RELEASE (ftpd, ntpd...).
> 
> That is not what I want to hear <g>. That my planned update route
> won't fly, I mean. As to the insecurity risks... nah, I won't loose
> any sleep over the slight and temporal insecurity. The worse that
> could happen is, well, what? Nothing springs to mind. We're not an
> interesting target to crackers.
> 
> Anyway, the box is currently happily runing 3.5.1-STABLE. But you are
> saying that I should not go straight to the RELENG_4 tag. So what tag
> do you suggest? I've only done CVSups within the stable branches. and
> port and security ones naturally. So I don't know any other tags <g>.
> 
> Couldn't find that page that listed the tags in the emanual either.
> I did look! Really.


You should probably go to 4.1-Release or 4.2-Release first. Several
reports indicate that they should work.
The tags for those releases ar RELENG_4_1_0_RELEASE and
RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE respectively.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se


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