Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:27:17 +0100 From: Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Best upgrade strategy Message-ID: <86hdicihey.fsf@nowhere.org>
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Greetings! I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, an immigrant from the wonderful world of Slackware Linux. Finished installing on Sunday! I wanted to make sure the system was up to date with regard to security fixes etc so used cvsup to upgrade source and re-built the kernel - it all went like a dream - what a system!! What documentation!! Enough rapture! Here's the question Having installed 5.3 from cd, I performed the above upgrade once and found that I was at version 6 Current! Back to the drawing board and started again with the following line in my cvsup file *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 Better - I only find myself with a pre-release 5.4 :-) That is fine, but at the point when 5.4 becomes the production release, I would like simply to track that for security fixes etc rather than follow the stable developement branch. Can I acheive that simply by putting *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 into my cvsup file, at the right time -ie as soon as 5.4 becomes a production release? ? Or will there be such complications that it would be best to perform yet another install (which is smooth but slow on my set-up). Thanks in advance Glyn
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