From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 22:39:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.204.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B07537B5CD for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:39:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcs@draenor.org) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12aC9U-0000YG-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:40:28 +0200 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:40:28 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE to 3.4-STABLE necessary? Message-ID: <20000329084028.B1918@draenor.org> References: <20000328223811.A331@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000328223811.A331@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@nwu.edu on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:38:11PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey there, The biggest advantage to tracking -STABLE is that you can keep as current as you want with the ports. If you stay with -RELEASE you will quickly find that if you cvsup you'll need to install upgrade kits unless you're running -STABLE. The downside is that the packages on the CD become null and void (I stand under correction here) but you will still be able to use the source .tar.gz files on the CD's for the ports (provided that the version you're installing is the same as the one on the CD). For more information, you should see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current-stable.html Hope this helps. Cheers, Marc On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:38:11PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I just bought the 3.4-RELEASE CDs and wonder if it's "necessary" for a > desktop user like me to go to 3.4-STABLE? With 4 CDs of packages/ports, > updating to the stable branch will mean I'll essentially loose those > packages/ports, right, since they are meant for RELEASE and not STABLE? > -- > David Kanter > djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message