Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:20:56 -0500 From: "Steve Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> To: "Colin Percival" <cperciva@freebsd.org>, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? Message-ID: <011701c5443a$fbdfb060$9b00030a@officescape.net> References: <20050412213328.GC1953@lava.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417185631.05349ee0@localhost> <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com> <426310A0.7060906@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417202031.0490ad98@localhost> <4263280B.3010601@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418020749.05761298@localhost> <002b01c5442c$d4a1caf0$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418094749.057187f0@localhost> <007c01c5442f$c9a36ed0$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418105722.05c08490@localhost>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> > At 10:00 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: > > >> Perhaps. But then, all of the software that recognizes "official" releases > >> and does things like download ports, etc. won't work. > > > >It would recognize it as 4.11. > > Actually, it tends not to recognize it at all. If the string doesn't > say "4.11-RELEASE", the software reports that ports, packages, etc. > can't be found. Try installing packages with /stand/sysinstall on > a snapshot and you'll see what I mean. Colin's "FreeBSD-update" seems > to exhibit similar behavior. Ah. Packages and /stand/sysinstall. Yeah. I haven't installed a package from sysinstall in YEARS so I probably wouldn't have noticed that. Getting security updates for packages using sysinstall is a total lose. cvsup and portupgrade are my tools of choice... with a little portaudit thrown in to let me know when I should update something. To use sysinstall you need something approaching an actual release (with ports). I use sysinstall to put a bare minium OS on a machine and then immediately switch to cvsup. -Steve
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