downgrade 4.11-stable to 4.11R

[Erik Trulsson]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:46:53PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:31:27 -0500
> Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mar 31, 2005, at 2:26 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > > Is it possible to go back to 4.11R if you've updated src to
> > > 4.11-stable first and updated sthe system w/ make buildworld,
> > > install..
> > >
> > > If I put the 4.11R sources back in /usr/src and do a make/build
> > > etc.. again will my fbsd system really be 4.11R again without soem
> > > 'nasty' traces of the update?
> > 
> > Switch to using RELENG_4_11_RELEASE as your cvsup tag, and you can 
> > revert your sources back.  You'll be missing the recent security
> > patch,  though-- using RELENG_4_11 might be better.
> > 
> > Why do you want to revert back to the older sources?
> 
> RELENG_4_11 was the idea. Why I want back? I want my server on the
> internet to be as secure as it can be and for what I understand 4.11 is
> safer to use as 4-stable (in which always can sneak in little bugs, or
> is this to paranoid?)

Although there is a small *possibility* that some bug has managed to
sneak in to RELENG_4 that is not present in RELENG_4_11, you should
contrast this to the *fact* that there are bugs which has been fixed in
RELENG_4, but which has not been - and will not be - fixed in
RELENG_4_11.

That being said, in terms of security there is probably no difference
whatsoever between RELENG_4 and RELENG_4_11 and going back to
RELENG_4_11 from RELENG_4 for security reasons is mostly just a waste
of time and energy.


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Erik Trulsson
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