----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 10:00 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: > > >> Perhaps. But then, all of the software that recognizes "official" releases > >> and does things like download ports, etc. won't work. > > > >It would recognize it as 4.11. > > Actually, it tends not to recognize it at all. If the string doesn't > say "4.11-RELEASE", the software reports that ports, packages, etc. > can't be found. Try installing packages with /stand/sysinstall on > a snapshot and you'll see what I mean. Colin's "FreeBSD-update" seems > to exhibit similar behavior.
Ah. Packages and /stand/sysinstall. Yeah. I haven't installed a package from sysinstall in YEARS so I probably wouldn't have noticed that. Getting security updates for packages using sysinstall is a total lose. cvsup and portupgrade are my tools of choice... with a little portaudit thrown in to let me know when I should update something. To use sysinstall you need something approaching an actual release (with ports). I use sysinstall to put a bare minium OS on a machine and then immediately switch to cvsup. -Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
