releases, branches,..
Rocky Borg
rrborg at speakeasy.net
Thu Aug 12 21:12:58 UTC 2010
On 8/12/2010 2:02 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> On 12-8-2010 22:53, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200, Dick Hoogendijk<dick at nagual.nl>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found?
>>> Which brach do I follow?
>> In this case, use "freebsd-update" to track -RELEASE; you will
>> get the security patches by binary updating, e. g. you can use
>> this tool to get from 8.1-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE-p1 without the
>> need to compile anything.
>>
>> See "man freebsd-update" for details.
> Thank you. I will follow RELEASE than. Also a thanks to Svein. ;-) Is
> RELEASE automaticaly set in a fresh FreeBSD install or do I need to
> change anything?
>
uname -raa
freebsd-update will update that version you have installed (so yes
RELEASE in a fresh install) only with security patches. If a new version
comes out you want to upgrade to you would do something like
freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.3-RELEASE
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