Laszlo Danielisz wrote: > Hey Guys, > > If I want to upgrade from 8.1-RELEASE-p11 to 8.3 do I need to also update > installed packages? One more thing: by when has 8.3 release maintenance? > Maybe I'm blind but I haven't found the date on freebsd.org >
When updating within a major release version such as 8.1 to 8.x the ABI is stable and remains the same so it is not necessary to update the third party packages/ports. It becomes necessary to rebuild/update whenever changing from one major release to another, such as from 8.x to 9.x for example. If you use csup and a supfile to update src, just use tag=RELENG_8_3 to pull in the security maintenance release bits. Currently it is at P4. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"