Re: releases, branches,..

2010-08-12 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 12.08.2010 22:46, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: My years of OpenSolaris made me forget the use of releases and branches. I'm not into too much compiling anymore. I want a stable, but also safe server. I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? What do I need to run if I

Re: releases, branches,..

2010-08-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: My years of OpenSolaris made me forget the use of releases and branches. I'm not into too much compiling anymore. I want a stable, but also safe server. I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues

Re: releases, branches,..

2010-08-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 12-8-2010 22:53, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? Which brach do I follow? In this case, use freebsd-update to track -RELEASE; you will get the security patches by

Re: releases, branches,..

2010-08-12 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/12/2010 2:02 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 12-8-2010 22:53, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? Which brach do I follow? In this case, use freebsd-update to track

Re: releases, branches,..

2010-08-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:02:01 +0200, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: Thank you. I will follow RELEASE than. Also a thanks to Svein. ;-) Is RELEASE automaticaly set in a fresh FreeBSD install or do I need to change anything? The freebsd-update program will track RELEASE-p because this is

Re: releases and stable for dummies

2003-12-19 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:06:20AM -0500, Ron Sweeney wrote: Can somebody please give me a brief overview of the roadmap between releases and stable and how to determine which release is truly STABLE for a production environment? I have struggled making any sense with the number of

RE: Releases...

2003-12-13 Thread fbsd_user
Yes 4.9 is the official stable production release. All the 5.x versions are the bleeding edge development versions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Xpression Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 4:37 PM To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Releases...

Re: Releases...

2003-12-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 13 December 2003 at 17:11:55 -0500, fbsd_user wrote: On Saturday, December 13, 2003 4:37 PM, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've donwloading 5.0 Why that? 5.1 has been out for a long time, and 5.2 is just round the corner. but yesterday at night give me an error, when I enter the