how to track 6.0 increments ?
martinko
martinkov at pobox.sk
Sun Dec 4 11:12:50 PST 2005
ke.han wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote:
>>
>>> I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes
>>> before something labeled 6.1 comes out.
>>> What is the prescribed method for this?
>>>
>>> I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I just
>>> want security fixes and other changes that might be termed 6.01 if
>>> there were such a thing.
>>
>>
>>
>> Create a cvsup-file with
>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_0
>
>
> thanks...so now that I have sync'd my source incorrectly by using
> stable-supfile and standard-supfile, can I get things back to where I
> want just by sync'ing again with the RELENG_6_0 tag ??
>
> thanks ke han
why incorrectly? those files come as cvsup examples. and they're
correct, you only need to specify your nearest mirror (*default host=)
and if you want to follow the security branch, just change tag=RELENG_6
to tag=RELENG_6_0
martin
>
>>
>> This will only give you important security fixes. If there are fixes,
>> you can find them on the FreeBSD homepage, under SECURITY ADVISORIES.
>>
>> If a advisory has come out, use cvsup to update the sources, and rebuild
>> your kernel and userland as documented at the end of /usr/src/UPDATING
>> under the heading 'To rebuild everything and install it on the current
>> system". Note; you have to be in /usr/src to build world+kernel.
>>
>> Roland
>
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