Howto change from RELEASE to STABLE

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Mon Oct 20 08:32:56 PDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 15:50, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> I am running 5.1-RELEASE and would like to update to 5.1-STABLE. How
> can I go about it? I just want to install the software and not the
> kernel itself. Is that possible? 
> 
> Also, where is the information for pkg_add kept? I mean when I say
> 'pkg_add -r bash2' how does it know where to go get it? Is there a
> config file for pkg_add somewhere? I searched for it but could not find
> it. 
> 
I am not certain where the "config" file is but I am sure there is
probably one somewhere.  But pkg_add pretty much gets everything from
ftp.freebsd.org which is the only place I know of to get reliable
packages.

Jason Cribbins

> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -D
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