Subject: Re: upgrading FreeBSD problem
From: Mac Mason (macmasta@ak.net)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 12:06:28 AKDT
"FreeBSD Stable" is badly named. It's equivalent to debian's "testing"
distribution. It's a "we're pretty sure this works" thing that gets
updated relatively regularly.
If you actually want a "stable" system, then you install the most recent
-RELEASE and do security updates. When 4.9-RELEASE happens, then you
upgrade.
All of that's covered in the FreeBSD handbook, too.
~Mac~
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:11, Damien Hull wrote:
> A few days ago I upgraded a FreeBSD system to 4 stable. I used the
> supfile in /usr/share/example/cvsup/stable-supfile ( I think that's
> right).
>
> What I ended up with was 4.9 prerelease Why I got 4.9 I have no idea. I
> thought 4.8 was stable.
>
> Yesterday I tried to add software using /stand/sysinstall. I couldn't do
> it because none of the FTP sites had the ports for 4.9. I was forced to
> go into /usr/ports. This works but I was hoping to use the
> /stand/sysinstall tools.
>
> My recommendation is to edit the supfile to upgrade to 4.8. Don't go to
> 4.9. It's not ready for use.
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