Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Glenn Sieb wrote:

> Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM:
>
>> Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most
>> reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but
>> 5-RELENG
>>  
>>
> To help ease frustration and such.. you mean:
>
> Follow RELENG_5_2 not RELENG_5 (from: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html)
>
> In cvsup-supfile speak for those of us using cvsup to sync our source 
> trees
>
> Thanks for the advice, Alex! :)
>
> Best,
> G.
>

Just for general information:  Bruce Mah has a fine article,
entitled "FreeBSD 5.3-BETA Migration Guide".  Worth a read
for anyone moving from anywhere towards 5.3-RELEASE, IMO.

http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html

Kevin Kinsey