Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:21:10 -0400 From: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which branch to use as tag for 5.2.1? Message-ID: <1089253270.14926.7.camel@linux.site> In-Reply-To: <20040708020559.GA38515@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20040708025415.V98023@studsboll.realworld.nu> <20040708020559.GA38515@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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--=-yo7ClV/P/ndoGnE7h/0P Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 04:05 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > What you want is RELENG_5, which doesn't exist yet. It will be created > when 5.x is considered to be the new -STABLE. Until then you can > either follow -CURRENT (which is the "branch" leading up to the next > 5.x release just as RELENG_4 is the branch leading up to the next 4.x > release) or RELENG_5_2 (which is 5.2.1-RELEASE + important bugfixes) >=20 >=20 > As for what the other tags are: RELENG_5_1 and RELENG_5_0 are as > RELENG_5_2 except for 5.1-release and 5.0-release respectively - little > reason to use them. The RELENG_5_x_BP tags are branches but static > tags marking the place where the RELENG_5_x branch was created from > HEAD. RELENG_5_x_y_RELEASE marks the code for 5.x.y-release, and also > doesn't change. There is little reason to use either of those unless > you for some reason want the exact code that went into a relase. >=20 >=20 I was trying to install ports using /stand/sysinstall and it was complaining that 5.2-CURRENT didn't exist on any of the ftp mirrors i was trying and I should change to an appropriate release in the 'Options' menu. What should this be if I have 5.2.1 installed and want to track -CURRENT? Thanks. --=20 Cheers, Trey --- "I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things." -- Dorothy Parker=20 10:19pm up 23:55, 3 users, load average: 0.29, 0.27, 0.31=20 Linux linux 2.6.5-7.95-default #1 Thu Jul 1 15:23:45 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux --=-yo7ClV/P/ndoGnE7h/0P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBA7K+WEGwvX2++Pg0RAvOGAKC3s2SJVf15j8xuWkP9UEv8CE6SGwCgxk6l vb0qcKARMkd3uT79CYMXWos= =vu7M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-yo7ClV/P/ndoGnE7h/0P--
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