Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:52:11 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 7.1-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <4901628B.8040603@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20081024053044.GB5231@icarus.home.lan> References: <49014E18.9010209@eskk.nu> <20081024042710.GA4254@icarus.home.lan> <490151E1.6090909@eskk.nu> <20081024053044.GB5231@icarus.home.lan>
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Jeremy Chadwick skrev: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:41:05AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: >> Jeremy Chadwick skrev: >>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:24:56AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: >>>> I'm running 7.1-PRERELEASE. Yesterday I csup'ed and upgraded as I've >>>> done several times in order to install 7.1-BETA2. Everything went as >>>> it should, but my system still says 7.1-PRERELEASE. In my >>>> stable-supfile I have "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7". >>>> >>>> Can anyone tell me where I can make sure that my system upgrades to BETA-2? >>> You are essentially running BETA2, with even newer fixes since the BETA2 >>> release. You should stay with the RELENG_7 tag. >>> >> Thanks Jeremy >> I thought that the uname tag would change to "BETA-2" > > I sincerely do not know where "BETA2" (not "BETA-2") comes from. It's > not defined anywhere in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh in CVS: I got it from here http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046037.html /Leslie > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > > To me, this means someone is hand-hacking the file before making ISO > releases. The problem with this is there's no way to correlate what CVS > tag said string is based on; I have to assume it's RELENG_7. > > CC'ing Ken, who can probably explain where "BETA2" comes from, since I > believe he's the one who makes the builds. > > <opinion> > I really wish we'd name our not-yet-RELEASE-or-STABLE ISO releases as > FreeBSD x.y-PRERELEASE-YYYYMMDD, which would make more sense to users. > </opinion> >
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