Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

Alex de Kruijff freebsd at akruijff.dds.nl
Tue Oct 19 18:01:19 PDT 2004


On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:46:49PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 5:38 PM:
> 
> >The anwser to this question is to long for me to write and its written
> >down in the handbook. Please follow the instuctions in this chapter.
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html
> > 
> >
> Danke, Alex--since I'm not seeing anything unusual in there (though I 
> have to check UPDATING as well), I'm gathering this wasn't the upgrade 
> with the concerns my compadres have had. :)
> 
> >FreeBSD-5 isn't stable jet although the tag exist. 5.3 is more stable
> >than 5.2.1 and this runs fine on my box. 
> > 
> >
> *nod* I'm in a planning stage here, not a doing stage yet.. :)

Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most
reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but
5-RELENG

-- 
Alex

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