Dear all, This is my first posting to this venerable list so please bear with me. Today I set to upgrade a 4.5-RELEASE (installed some time ago from the official isos available from ftp.freebsd.org) system to 4.5-STABLE. So basically what I did is RTFM thru the handbook, then I installed cvsup as indicated and launched it with the following supfile:
*default host=cvsup.fi.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all Some time ago, I upgraded a 4.3-RELEASE to 4.3-STABLE so I was expecting to see 4.5-STABLE (or 4.6-PRERELEASE) after making the world/kernel. But to my surprise, I got a "FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p4". I have quite an extensive experience with OpenBSD. And in this system there are three "states": RELEASE, CURRENT and STABLE. Now looking at the security advisories, I see RELEASE-p9, RELEASE-p2 and STABLE among others. This is really worrying me (for ex., in the last OpenSSH adv. they say that it is fixed in REL-p9 and REL-p2 but nothing about REL-p4 and after fetch-ing the patch and trying to apply it to the src tree, it looked like it wxas already in there) so it would be great if someone: 1. shows me what I did wrong and how do I fix it to get 4.5-STABLE (well 4.6-PRERELEASE according to newvers.sh right ?) 2. point me to some definitive resource to understand the differences between RELEASE(-p.)?, and STABLE once and for all TIA. -- Saad -- [pgp keyid: 35592A6D http://pgp.mit.edu] [pgp fingerprint: BF7D D73E 1FCF 4B4F AF63 65EB 34F1 DBBF 3559 2A6D] # booth slave for hire To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
