Re: newbie upgrading question

From: Ken Smith (kensmith_at_cse.Buffalo.EDU)
Date: 05/26/04

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    Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:58:50 -0400
To: Brian Smith <smitho@mantech-wva.com>

    On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:17:04PM -0400, Brian Smith wrote:

    > I have been working with FreeBSD for about a month now, and it is my first
    > foray into the BSD/UNIX/Linux world. I have a question about upgrading. I
    > have tried several different ways to go about upgrading, and still can't
    > seem to get the desired results. I started out with a 4.8 install from
    > ftp.freebsd.org. My end goal is to build a FreeBSD firewall machine based
    > on 4.8-STABLE. When I put RELENG_4_8 in my supfile,
    > download/recompile/etc., uname -a still shows the version at 4.8-RELEASE.
    > When I cvsup with RELENG_4 in my supfile, I got upgraded to 4.10-STABLE. Is
    > there any way to upgrade just to 4.8-STABLE? Am I going about this the
    > wrong way?

    RELENG_4 is the active development branch for the 4.X series of
    releases. We are just wrapping up the 4.10 release now. Typically
    things that get committed to RELENG_4 have been well tested but at
    times it can be slightly risky to use that in a production environment.

    A less risky thing to follow is the specific version branches. You had
    tried the right thing which was to cvsup to RELENG_4_8. I'm not sure
    what step(s) you missed when trying to do that, but that is the right
    approach for what you want. You will not however see -STABLE in uname.
    You will only see -STABLE on RELENG_4. What you will see on the
    version based branches is something like "4.8-RELEASE-p22" (that is
    what you should see now if you cvsup/install from RELENG_4_8). This
    denotes that 22 security related patches have been made to that branch
    since it was released. Only security related patches get applied to
    these brances once a release happens, which is why they are slightly
    less risky to use in production environments. 

    -- 
						Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |
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