New system - go for 9.1+upgrade - or go for 9.2-RC4?

[Terje Elde]

On 25. sep. 2013, at 09.00, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
o) Will upgrading kernel/system using
> svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/ /usr/src
> bring a 9.2-RC4 installed system up to date once 9.2 final is released?

Two options:

base/stable/9 - track 9-STABLE
base/releng/9.2 - track 9.2-security branch

The former is more of a moving target, while the latter is 9.2-RELEASE, but gets security updates.

Also, rather than using svn://, I'd use https://, and pick a server from this list:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn-mirrors.html

Terje