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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 23:19:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Larry Marso <lsmarso@panix.com>
To: Antonio Bemfica <bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca>
Subject: RE: downgrading from current
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Did this three days ago.

Grab the latest stable-supfile via FTP from sup.FreeBSD.org, then make sure
your release line says:

*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_2_2    

After you sup the sources, but BEFORE you recompile the kernel or make world,
you need to compile three utilities independently:

1) config (from sbin)

2) make

3) makeinfo

You'll find these in subdirectories in your sup'ed sources.  Make and install
them.  Then, you should be able to make world without incident.

Best of luck!  Indeed, I find 2.2-gamma has all the latest features I need plus
LOTS of added stability.  Also, PAO works great ... and as a laptop user I'm
very pleased.

Use the latest stable supfile from the 
On 17-Feb-97 Antonio Bemfica wrote:
|>Half of the machines around here are running 2.1.6 and the other half are
|>running -current.  A couple of the -current machines are now being used
|>for tasks that require a bit more stability than -current provides, and I
|>was wondering if bringing them down from -current would be a bad move. 
|>
|>I am also wondering how to accomplish that (maybe using RELENG_2_2 as the
|>tag on the cvsup file would do it?).  I'd still have some -current
|>machines to play with, and I'd have a machine running 2.2 (BETA) to get
|>ready for an upgrade for the other ones.  Any comments or suggestions? I'd
|>appreciate some guidance. 
|>
|>Antonio
|>-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|>"I myself have always disliked being called a 'genius'.  It is fascinating
|> to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid 
|> using the term"  --  John Lanchester,  in  "The Debt to Pleasure"
|>


Regards.
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Larry Marso <lsmarso@panix.com>
date: 18-Feb-97
Time: 23:19:08