From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 8 02:18:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BD016A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 02:18:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCEF43D1D for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 02:18:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trey@fastmail.fm) Received: from ga-canton-u1-c5a-b-87.atlaga.adelphia.net ([24.53.105.87]) by mta11.adelphia.netESMTP <20040708021823.OBVB13168.mta11.adelphia.net@ga-canton-u1-c5a-b-87.atlaga.adelphia.net> for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 22:18:23 -0400 From: Trey Sizemore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20040708020559.GA38515@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20040708025415.V98023@studsboll.realworld.nu> <20040708020559.GA38515@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-yo7ClV/P/ndoGnE7h/0P" Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:21:10 -0400 Message-Id: <1089253270.14926.7.camel@linux.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.9 Subject: Re: Which branch to use as tag for 5.2.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 02:18:24 -0000 --=-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--