Re: Best upgrade strategy

2005-04-12 Thread Glyn Millington
jason henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn Millington wrote: > >>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 us

Re: Best upgrade strategy

2005-04-12 Thread jason henson
Glyn Millington wrote: 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 w

Re: Best upgrade strategy

2005-04-12 Thread Glyn Millington
"Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn Millington wrote: >> 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 >> *

Re: Best upgrade strategy

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew P.
Glyn Millington wrote: 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

Best upgrade strategy

2005-04-12 Thread Glyn Millington
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 - w