using 5-STABLE packages with 5.4 RELEASE

Nekdo Nekje umeglic at gmail.com
Wed May 11 22:48:26 PDT 2005


On 5/11/05, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Nekdo Nekje wrote:
> >
> >
> >>My question is... Is it possible to use the latest Samba package with
> >>the 5.4-RELEASE? Is it absolutely necessary to upgrade the RELEASE
> >>distibution to -STABLE for that to work? Is using a package from the
> >>STABLE ports tree with the RELEASE system an insane thing to do?
> >>
> >>
> >It's mostly expected to work, although some packages are tied to a
> >particular kernel version and may not work on systems other than that
> >for which they were built.  samba should be fine though.
> >
> >
> I've never had a problem with a port that was related running
> -RELEASE(*).  The likelihood of this happening is really quite slim.
> Many, many people run -RELEASE versions because they want the stability,
> and because not all machines can be rebooted at whim.  All these people
> have tons of ports installed, which they more than likely keep up to date.
> 
> I'm sure Kris is correct that, in theory, some port could fail on a
> -RELEASE version, but it really is very unlikely.  It is very much more
> unlikely with something like samba which runs on many different
> operating systems.  In short, keep your ports up to date!  (But read
> /usr/ports/UPDATING).
> 
> (*) Actually, I mean RELENG whatever.  Check out the handbook on using
> cvsup to keep your version of FreeBSD up to date with respect to
> security patches, rather than the more general fixing and improving that
> goes into STABLE or CURRENT.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html
> 

Thanks.... I will do that....

Best regards,
Uros


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