Upgrading to n-STABLE or RELENG_x

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:34:14PM -0500, daniel wrote:
> >>FreeBSD will occasionally release security advisories detailing the 
> >>badness
> >>surrounding a single package and will often include the following as the
> >>solution:
> >>
> >>  1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4-STABLE, 5-STABLE, or 6-STABLE,
> >>  or to the RELENG_6_0, RELENG_5_4, RELENG_5_3, RELENG_4_11, or
> >>  RELENG_4_10 security branch dated after the correction date.
> >>
> >>What does this mean?  And how do I do it?
> >
> >Both questions are answered in the handbook.
> 
> They are, but why is 6-STABLE even mentioned since RELENG_6 is the cvs 
> tag? Or are there a 6-STABLE tag as well?

They are different names for the same thing.

Kris
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20060323/55d4bfea/attachment.pgp