newbie upgrading question

[Kent Stewart]

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 10:17 am, Brian Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been working with FreeBSD for about a month now, and it is my
> first foray into the BSD/UNIX/Linux world.  I have a question about
> upgrading.  I have tried several different ways to go about
> upgrading, and still can't seem to get the desired results.  I
> started out with a 4.8 install from ftp.freebsd.org.  My end goal is
> to build a FreeBSD firewall machine based on 4.8-STABLE.  When I put
> RELENG_4_8 in my supfile,
> download/recompile/etc., uname -a still shows the version at
> 4.8-RELEASE. When I cvsup with RELENG_4 in my supfile, I got upgraded
> to 4.10-STABLE.  Is there any way to upgrade just to 4.8-STABLE?  Am
> I going about this the wrong way?
>
> Thank you all so much,
>
>

You missed some point. RELENG_4 is no longer 4.8-stable but is 
4.10-stable. It moves with the current 4.x release. If you want 
-stable, that is what you got.

Kent

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