Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 13:53:12 +0100 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd@keyslapper.org Subject: Re: Updating newly installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 Message-ID: <20040704125312.GY476@crom.vickiandstacey.com> In-Reply-To: <20040704124002.GB87468@keyslapper.org> References: <20040704122612.GX476@crom.vickiandstacey.com> <20040704124002.GB87468@keyslapper.org>
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Hello Louis,
Thanks for the response.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis LeBlanc <freebsd@keyslapper.org>"
To: To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 04 Jul, 2004 13:40 BST
Subject: Re: Updating newly installed FreeBSD-5.2.1
> On 07/04/04 01:26 PM, Stacey Roberts sat at the `puter and typed:
> > Hello,
> > Forgive the simple question here, please.
> >
> > I've just installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 from BSDMall's CD-Set, and I wanted to do what I'd usually do with a new installation of FreeBSD-4.x, which is to update it to the latest "stable" of that version. Now I know that there is no "Stable" version of 5.x as yet, but I wondered what it is that the supfiles located at /usr/share/examples/cvsup should be for what I want to do.
> >
> > The standard-supfile that is currently on my 5.2.1 install has :
> >
> > *default release=cvs tag=.
> >
> > Isn't that going to get me CURRENT?
> >
> > I had a look for what I would have thought should be branch information for RELENG_5_2_1, but couldn't actually find anything. What should I use?
>
> I believe the tag you're looking for is RELENG_5_2, but you might want
> to check here first:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html
Thanks for that link.., I missed that.
So should I change the *standard-supfile* to read:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2
Or, should I make the amendments to *stable-supfile*? Or does it not matter in this case?
Thanks again for taking the time to respond.
Regards,
Stacey
>
> HTH
> Lou
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