using CVS to upgrade

Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri almarrie at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 14:28:19 UTC 2007


On 6/5/07, wo_shi_big_stomach <wo_shi_big_stomach at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Got a question about upgrading using cvsup.
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> I've been following Richard Bejtlich's excellent howto for keeping FreeBSD boxes up to date:
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> http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_up-to-date.html
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> The instructions say to create a supfile with a line like this:
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> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1
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> and if you want to upgrade to the next version, to use this instead:
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> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE
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> My question: Is it OK to skip the "_RELEASE" part and instead use the
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> following:
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> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2
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> Many thanks
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> /wsbs

Sure, go ahead :)

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-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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