From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 10: 2:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31D737B404 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10136; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:02:27 -0700 Message-ID: <3CCECE1E.4030502@owt.com> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:02:22 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Sotham Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: cvsup'ping to 4.5-STABLE (slightl OT) References: <743669500.20020427213601@fastmail.fm> <20020428104538.B83112@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1411696390.20020428231738@fastmail.fm> <20020429133417.1964fb3b.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> <17231605203.20020430185204@fastmail.fm> <20020430152011.GQ325@roman.mobil.cz> <1733203656.20020430191843@fastmail.fm> <20020430152516.13166.qmail@adrastea.arcticbears.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Joe Sotham wrote: > Anton Shcherbinin writes: > >> Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 19:20:11, Roman Neuhauser wrote: >> >>>> Yesterday I run >>>> # cvsup -h cvsup2.freebsd.org stable-supfile >>>> where stable-supfile contained the following: >>>> ================================================== >>>> *default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org >>>> *default base=/usr >>>> *default prefix=/usr >>>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 >>>> *default delete use-rel-suffix >>>> *default compress >>>> src-all >>>> ================================================== >>>> Did I do the right thing? >>> >> >>> yes. >> >> >>>> You wrote about '4.5-stable from releng_4_5' >>>> and I am confused now: should I use >>>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_5 >>>> instead of >>>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 >>>> ? >>> >> >>> No. That would give you 4.5pX where X is current patch level. >>> IOW, if you want STABLE, go with RELENG_4 >> >> >> Thank you very much, Roman, for such a quick reply! Now, having been >> ensured by you that I've got the right sources (4.5-STABLE), I am >> running 'make world'. As for cvsup, it made a great impression on me, as >> it took me just 2 minutes 50 seconds to get 35 MBs of changes because of >> incredible compression (my connection is not very fast at all). >> -- >> Anton >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > Why would one want 4.5-STABLE rather than 4.5-Px? Well, with 4.5-Px, you only have security fixes. With 4.5-stable, you have the latest version. In a short while, it will convert to 4.6-beta, 4.6-release, and finally back to 4.6-stable. Kent > Joe Sotham > ----------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message