From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 21:19:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA15070 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:19:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA15056 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:19:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA28306; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:18:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:18:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "S(pork)" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is it done? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, S(pork) wrote: > I saw a message a few days back (before the internic canned my domain > without even asking for money first...) stating that -stable was just > about finished. I'd like to grab the stable source tree and keep it on a > local machine here for convenience, so I was wondering about two things: > > 1. Is it finished? 2.1.5-STABLE is "finished" as in lifetime. It's culmination will be 2.1.6-RELEASE. Then we'll start a new -STABLE for 2.2 when it comes out. > 2. Is there a better way to install than using sysinstall and then > cvsup-ing 2.1.5 -release to -stable. I feel like I'm probably missing > some simple way to do a direct -stable install... Not really, sysinstall does it for you pretty much. Just use the 'upgrade' option on the boot floppy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major