Upgrading to 4.9 CVS vs. binary?

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0700, Scott Schappell wrote:
> 
>>It seems that 4.9 is rapidly on its way to becoming RELEASE, which is a good
>>thing.  I'm currently running 4.8-p3 on my production server, and I don't
>>have a spare to build then move over, so it will be an in place upgrade.
>>
>>Which upgrade path would be the best? CVS or installing from a binary ISO
>>CD?
>>
>>If CVS, I'm assuming I need to add *default  tag=RELENG_4_9  when it's
>>released to my cvsup file to grab it, or do I need to start tracking
>>stable RELENG_4?
>>
>>My hunch is CVS will be the better way to do it, and the last time I tried
>>upgrading the system with a binary, it exploded (learned then don't do a
>>binary upgrade when it's running the kernel and multiuser, thank god for
>>backups).
>>
>>What is the recommendation of folks on this list?
> 
> 
> To go from RELENG_4_8 to RELENG_4_9, probably the simplest and least
> hassleful method is to cvsup the RELENG_4_9 sources, and then do a
> normal {build,install}{world,kernel} job.  There's not much point in
> your tracking RELENG_4, unless you want to practice at upgrading.

Is RELENG_4_9 already available at all?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

does not mention it. That's why i am tracking RELENG_4.


-- Heinrich