Noob question ....

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:32:45 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> 
> As a card-carrying noob to FreeBSD, I have a question .... Recent posts 
> have referred to version 9.3-STABLE of FreeBSD .... My uname output 
> appears below, obviously labeled RELEASE, not STABLE .... How do I 
> 'upgrade' from 9.3-RELEASE to 9.3-STABLE ?

By checking out the required source and rebuilding your
kernel and operating system.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/synching.html

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html

Also see the comment header of /usr/src/Makefile which
provides a short description of the targets and the
updating procedure.

However, you can use freebsd-update to binarily track
security changes for the -RELEASE branch, keeping your
system current. Note that -STABLE is a development branch,
and even though it's stable, there _might_ be problems
with it. The most experimental branch is -CURRENT or -HEAD
from which -STABLE is "distilled", and from that, -RELEASE
is usually being created.


> [wam at kabini1, ~, 3:44:36pm] 404 % uname -a; date
> FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu 
> Jul 10 23:44:39 UTC 2014 
> root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> Wed Oct 15 18:28:06 CDT 2014
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 6:28:06pm] 405 %

That's quite current. I don't think using -STABLE improves
your situation much - except of course you need very "bleeding
edge" features which are not available for -RELEASE yet...



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