Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:49:15 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which mailing list? Message-ID: <48E0F8FB.1000906@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <200809291742.35226.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <48E0C061.9010200@eskk.nu> <200809291654.05881.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <48E0EF10.6020702@eskk.nu> <200809291742.35226.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Mel skrev: > On Monday 29 September 2008 17:06:56 Leslie Jensen wrote: >> Mel skrev: >>> On Monday 29 September 2008 13:47:45 Leslie Jensen wrote: >>>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE and I want to keep track on when >>>> it's updated so that I can upgrade. I'm on the freebsd-announce list but >>>> I'm not sure if it's the right list to follow for this purpose. >>>> /Leslie >>> If your intention is to know when 7.1-RELEASE is available and possibly >>> track security advisories afterwards, it is the correct list: >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2008-February/001172. >>> html >> Well, my intention is to be updated even on the prerelease. As I >> understand from the answers, it might be somewhat ambiguous. Do you >> recommend that I update once a week for example. I understand that not >> all modifications will affect me, some will of course others will not > > Depends what you want. Everything that goes on RELENG_7 branch currently, is a > bug fix. Each bug fix, has the risk of introducing a regression bug. > If you want to part of the process that tests this PRERELEASE and report any > bugs, confirming bugfixes etc, then you should track RELENG_7. Best way to do > that is to csup your system in the daily periodic(7). Then you can see if any > fixes have been comitted, and rebuild your system. > > If you simply want to know if your system still works, subscribe to announce > to know when to stop testing and to build the final release, and build > whenever you have time. > > The script below my sig, adds csup to daily, when adding > daily_csup_enable="YES" to /etc/periodic.conf and putting the proper csup > file in the proper loc and/or setting the variables in /etc/periodic.conf. > Thanks! I'll try it out. /Leslie
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