Getting to pre-release?

[vadimkolchev]

Currently I run 9.0-RELEASE-p4, but would like to ask - how safe and secure is it to run 9.1-PRERELEASE? Is it worth it or is it better to wait for RELEASE to come out?

 

[SirDice]

I'm running 9-STABLE, which at this moment is 9.1-PRERELEASE.

The release candidate should be fine but it may still contain a few bugs that need to be ironed out before the actual release. That's why it's a release candidate.

 

[vadimkolchev]

To run stable do I have just to set RELENG_9 in stable supfile and rebuild?

 

[AlexJ]

Yes.

...
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_9
...

in your supfile, then

csup your-supfile

and after build and install world and kernel

 

[vadimkolchev]

Thank you. However, I still have to decide for myself if I move to pre-release or not.

 

[pkubaj]

If you do, use svn instead of csup. CVS support is going to be removed soon anyway, and csup is a lot slower than svn.

 

[SirDice]

It's not going to be gone any time soon. The downside of using SVN is that it requires a port whereas csup(1) does not.

 

[vadimkolchev]

What do you mean - requires a port?

 

[SirDice]

What do you mean - requires a port?

That functionality requires devel/subversion to be able to use. csup(1) doesn't require anything and comes with the base OS.

 

[vadimkolchev]

Ah, I see, thank you.

 

[kpa]

If your intent is to upgrade to 9.1-RELEASE when it's released the correct branch is RELENG_9_1 with csup(1) and releng/9.1 with svn(1).

RELENG_9 will give you 9-STABLE that is the development for next minor version 9.2 and is already a bit different compared to the 9.1-RELEASE branch RELENG_9_1.

 

[vadimkolchev]

Thank you all, but I decided to stick to Releases and wait until 9.1 is actually out.

 

[dave]

We have a winner!

Thank you all, but I decided to stick to Releases and wait until 9.1 is actually out.

Good. Call.