8.1 -> 8.3

[Laszlo Danielisz]

Great Mike, 
May I ask what is ABI?

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Laszlo Danielisz
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On 2012. September 15. at 18:56, Michael Powell wrote:

> Laszlo Danielisz wrote:
> 
> > Hey Guys,
> > 
> > If I want to upgrade from 8.1-RELEASE-p11 to 8.3 do I need to also update
> > installed packages? One more thing: by when has 8.3 release maintenance?
> > Maybe I'm blind but I haven't found the date on freebsd.org (http://freebsd.org)
> > 
> 
> 
> When updating within a major release version such as 8.1 to 8.x the ABI is 
> stable and remains the same so it is not necessary to update the third party 
> packages/ports. It becomes necessary to rebuild/update whenever changing 
> from one major release to another, such as from 8.x to 9.x for example.
> 
> If you use csup and a supfile to update src, just use tag=RELENG_8_3 to pull 
> in the security maintenance release bits. Currently it is at P4.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
> 
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