From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 15:39:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mackinac.eng.cenus.com (mackinac.eng.cenus.com [63.207.27.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22B9937B719 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:39:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ewuehler@cenus.com) Received: from ca-fsnt-01.CENUS.COM (mail.cenus.com [10.10.10.1]) by mackinac.eng.cenus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07764 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:39:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ewuehler@cenus.com) Received: from cenus.com (wuehler.eng.cenus.com [10.101.101.122]) by ca-fsnt-01.CENUS.COM with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id FCH4LQ6K; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:36:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3AA57523.DCD50F28@cenus.com> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:39:16 -0700 From: Eric Wuehler X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4x Release Tags Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Being new to FreeBSD - I've been using it for about 6 months now - could I get some clarification on the 4-x release tags and the function of such? Apologies for the verbosity up front :-) After playing with 4.0 for a while, I installed FreeBSD 4.2 clean, so that's my starting point. I recently discovered the cvsup utility - I'd like to move to 4.3 using cvsup. In the mean time, I have been using cvsup with the RELENG_4 tag which I assume has got me somewhere between 4.2 and 4.3. I'm mostly interested in cvsup for keeping ports up to date. Can I (at some point) change my "*default tag=RELENG_4" to "*default tag=RELENG_4_3_0_RELEASE"? Is this a valid line of thinking, or not? While I understand 4-stable should pretty much always work, the boss wants everybody on the same version for support/consistency reasons - I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to buildworld once a week, but that's just me :-) When will RELENG_4_3_0_RELEASE become a valid tag for cvsup? In reading the mail list archives, it looks like RELENG_4 will probably move through 4.3-BETA to 4.3-RELEASE - but if I want to stop at 4.3, when do I make the tag change? Also, is the assumption that the source for RELENG_4_3_0_RELEASE will never change (once 4.3 is officially declared) correct? I understand why ports requires the tag=., but does doc follow release tags, or does doc require the tag=.? Thanks, Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message