handbook question

[Manolis Kiagias]

mr g wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:47:17 +0200, "Manolis Kiagias"
> <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> said:
>   
>> mr g wrote:
>>     
>>> Why isn't part 26 included in part4? Both seem to have to do with
>>> adding the latest code to freebsd. I don't get why part 26 is
>>> near networking? I only say because I was hunting around and then
>>> fond it with help of a friend on chat. I think it might be a good
>>> idea to roll it into part 4 so all updating of programs and the
>>> os are covered together. Thanks. -g
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Chapter 4 refers to upgrading and  ports and packages, which are third 
>> party applications as fas as FreeBSD is concerned. Chapter 26 deals with 
>> freebsd-update which updates the base system and portsnap which updates 
>> the Ports tree (but not installed programs).
>> There is currently a discussion on merging chapter 26 with "The Cutting 
>> Edge" which also refers to base system upgrades. The resulting chapter 
>> will also be more appropriately named (something like Updating and 
>> Upgrading FreeBSD).
>>
>>     
>
>
> Thank you for responding.  Merry holidays.
> Freebsd is very impressive.
>
>   
It is impressive indeed ;)
The merge mentioned above has been completed, see the new "Updating and
Upgrading FreeBSD" chapter here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html

Happy Christmas to you too!