From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 19:22:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DE837B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:22:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C8E43F3F for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (server1.internal [10.202.2.132]) by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973DC4A192; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:22:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:22:17 -0500 X-Epoch: 1045797737 X-Sasl-enc: WpWHh/MZsauJi1tJlL6f6g Received: from sparky (dialup-63.214.196.192.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [63.214.196.192]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90182146CD; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:22:15 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Travis Troyer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup Tags and release status References: <3E559505.6030703@email.uc.edu> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jud Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:22:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3E559505.6030703@email.uc.edu> User-Agent: Opera7.0/Win32 M2 BETA2 build 2729 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:55:01 -0500, Travis Troyer wrote: > I am fairly new to FreeBSD and I was recently reading about CVSup for > updating packages and such, but I beleive the information I was reading > is out-dated: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html > > This says that RELENG_4 is for FreeBSD-STABLE and that RELENG_5_0 is > "used only for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes." > Is this still the case now that 5.0 is the current release version? I > installed FreeBSD using the 5.0-Release ISO and want the most current, > but stable packages, so I'm not sure which tag to use. If you are fairly new, you will be happier with 4-STABLE. Now that 5.0 has been released in a "-STABLE but by no means have all the kinks been worked out" version, yes, RELENG_5_0 is the tag for security and other critical version 5 fixes, as RELENG_4_7 is for version 4. > Also, I'm trying to install NVidia's geforce driver, which says it is for > FreeBSD -STABLE version 4.7 or later. When I try to compile it, it says > that "This driver does not support FreeBSD 5.0/-CURRENT!" If I installed > FreeBSD from the 5.0-Release ISO, wouldn't I be running 5.0-Stable and > not 5.0-Current? 5.0 *or* -CURRENT is what the forward slash in between means. Semantics aside, -CURRENT isn't that far removed from 5.0-Release at this point anyway. I think I did see some messages in this list about altering a few lines somewhere to run the nVidia driver with 5.0/-CURRENT. But 5.0 or - CURRENT is what you should run if you feel you have the knowledge to help yourself when you encounter problems, and to help the project as well by filing PRs and/or submitting patches. If you want the latest version that mostly "just works," 4-STABLE is where you should be. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message