Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:44:31 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Dan O'Connor <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> Cc: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE to 3.4-STABLE necessary? Message-ID: <20000329124431.A96553@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <02e001bf993c$452fa0e0$0200000a@danco> References: <02e001bf993c$452fa0e0$0200000a@danco>
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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.)
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