Best upgrade strategy

[jason henson]

Glyn Millington wrote:

>Greetings!
>
>I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, an immigrant from the wonderful world of
>Slackware Linux. Finished installing on Sunday!
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>I wanted to make sure the system was up to date with regard to security
>fixes etc so used cvsup to upgrade  source and re-built the kernel - it
>all went like a dream - what a system!!  What documentation!!
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Hold on,  just the kernel or the kernel and world.  You have to keep 
these in sync on FreeBSD.
Just checking because I hear you can just upgrade the linux kernel to 
your hearts content without messing with the other stuff on the system.

>Enough rapture!  Here's the question Having installed 5.3 from cd, I
>performed the above upgrade once and found that I was at version 6
>Current! Back to the drawing board and started again with the following
>line in my cvsup file
>
>*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
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>Better - I only find myself with a pre-release 5.4 :-)
>
>That is fine, but at the point when 5.4 becomes the production release, I
>would like simply to track that for security fixes etc rather than follow
>the stable developement branch.
>
>Can I acheive that simply by putting
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>*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4
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>into my cvsup file, at the right time -ie as soon as 5.4 becomes
>a production release? ?  Or will there be such
>complications that it would be best to perform yet another install (which
>is smooth but slow on my set-up).
>
>Thanks in advance
>
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>Glyn
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