From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 3:45:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D7D37B539 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:45:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12aGtj-000EwK-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:44:31 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12aGtj-000BhJ-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:44:31 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:44:31 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Dan O'Connor Cc: "David J. Kanter" , FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE to 3.4-STABLE necessary? Message-ID: <20000329124431.A96553@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <02e001bf993c$452fa0e0$0200000a@danco> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <02e001bf993c$452fa0e0$0200000a@danco> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan O'Connor wrote: >> 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? > > True, but you'll also have access to the latest version of all the ports. No, it's not true; IME most packages from the 3.3 CDs at least work OK on 3.4. There may be a few exceptions, but I haven't noticed many. ("lsof" is probably one example, as would be any other program which is closely tied to the kernel.) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message