From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 12:33:03 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 CA42216A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:33:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra04.ex.eclipse.net.uk (mra04.ex.eclipse.net.uk [212.104.129.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CA543D2F for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:33:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mra04.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4165A133B94 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:33:01 +0100 (BST) Received: from mra04.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra04.ex.eclipse.net.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03568-01-74 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:32:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from millingtons.org (unknown [82.152.120.109]) by mra04.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0FAD133B5B for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:32:58 +0100 (BST) Received: by millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 20AC065F2; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:34:39 +0100 (BST) From: Glyn Millington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. References: <86hdicihey.fsf@nowhere.org> <425B919D.9030408@mail.ru> X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter, A.D. 2005 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:34:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: <425B919D.9030408@mail.ru> (Andrew P.'s message of "Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:15:09 +0400") Message-ID: <867jj8b2cj.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEUNEBDJOic5IiZ/IxW0 NCHntrfbQCfOdWmAUVT46N2BELz9AAACIUlEQVQ4jWXUvY6jMBAAYIs3sNaiRsMVaZehcIvi4l7A QimRcly9BWeuPNCJeYEUvO3N2IZN9pCiBH/MjydOlHFa63I0rgGosdWdHge+/62c6xiGK4IAOpdg ilAOplEMuCK13TjqMYIEyPNwIVoJ23IcTzCNJLKEiA12I9OPA3iJ5EKo2+GAoXxDS1sIk+/nBlrN NX4qDhj0Fbfg/W3fWaB2XYZRo51ked8ffl4RM/DucJviuoTQ8gL+hHnBo4Z+s+GAR8+5Trg+gQ/U voDfc65AyNkjmK9geIeyQYHpBXQE51AgiReQHSbgjYfgubKPYLpxyECBaLs9wjb1M7WmK3WEa01k iW789BbmhUFn4FVOdvO+D9N8cXduKAHXmPrg4zXbDwZ9gu/j4Hm8268TvvN0JYu0/BV8jMhgXDmo NvYbIwQk1Ydpy7SP/+BI5aR4oGmebgJ389xVmBs+btPu1+3uPsGGGeXo/t379Y8xfGxVHBXYTU4h z8z36/sBctBr4lPDL66D7zrBFStVQN3UFGTEBCc0SslvgAcpsvARTSDrAnyg5VuBAzhRvMCuyC0A VN+c4X4VpnVV1FyaE1WqjlNSzQmW2+V1VaDDZwC0awPyMf5GVfxYVLH+AukOsXWqegKAeFdJSAaQ F0hAkdLiJ0iMBKpU5qgMZw+5xxPSwvGeAxkWyVMAXdIgqiJn4BXeNe+c8oSOq7jE/wW6LCq1o/4B MFsqn6kz4sQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk Subject: Re: Best upgrade strategy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:33:03 -0000 "Andrew P." writes: > Glyn Millington wrote: >> That is fine, but at the point when 5.4 becomes the production release, I >> would like simply to track that for security fixes etc rather than follow >> the stable developement branch. >> Can I acheive that simply by putting >> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 >> into my cvsup file, at the right time -ie as soon as 5.4 becomes >> a production release? ? Or will there be such >> complications that it would be best to perform yet another install (which >> is smooth but slow on my set-up). > > > Yes, you can use RELENG_5_4 tag to track > security fixes when 5.4 is released. It > goes smoothly most of the times, some > people even managed to upgrade from > 4.x to 5.x without reinstalling (ok, > _that_ wasn't smooth). Just look through > release notes, src/UPDATING and so on, > and use mergemaster carefully. Thanks Andrew - just needed to check this with those who know, to make sure I had not miscontrued the Handbook! atb Glyn