From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 14:19:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org 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 280C016A597 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 14:19:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39E943D60 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 14:19:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6865C1A3C1A; Tue, 9 May 2006 07:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 155BC51314; Tue, 9 May 2006 10:19:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 10:19:43 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: albi Message-ID: <20060509141943.GA88511@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44605ED5.8090805@scii.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44605ED5.8090805@scii.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: details about EOL (of FreeBSD 5.4) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 14:19:50 -0000 --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:20:21AM +0200, albi wrote: >=20 > i'm running 5.4 on a few servers, and i wondered till when > security-updates will be available >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/security/ says that the EOL is estimated may 31 > 2006, but does that also mean no more security-updates for 5.4 ? Yes. > i have no problem with doing a reinstall with the brand new 6.1 (or is > the upgrade-jump from 5.4 to 6.1 no problem at all ?) , but i just like > to get an idea when that would be really needed :) 5.4 to 6.x is pretty straightforward. The only thing to watch out for is to recompile all your ports (which you have to do when crossing any major revision boundary). portupgrade -fa or -faPP makes this pretty easy though. Kris --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEYKT/Wry0BWjoQKURAn0oAKCzPwsQUpujYsAMSa6heP+2fsHx8ACgwOqe Gc2vgC4aXfRop5O0UBhqHTw= =485+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--