From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 12:32:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bach.Graphics.Cornell.EDU (bach.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FDE37B71C for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:32:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hurf@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (barn.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.210]) by bach.Graphics.Cornell.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA26270; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:29:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hurf@graphics.cornell.edu) Message-ID: <3AB90F2A.80A8C3D5@graphics.cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:29:30 -0500 From: Hurf Sheldon Organization: PCG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mark Murray , Hroi Sigurdsson Subject: Re: cvsup/cvsupfile question References: <3AB8F56A.9D85E58A@graphics.cornell.edu> <3AB9065A.70BBCAA9@asdf.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Many Thanks to Mark Murray and Hroi for quick answers. Since I've moved this to freebsd-questions at Hroi's suggestion, let me ask some questions... I'm curious: How would we set the cvsupfile to stay with 4.2-STABLE? Despite Mark's protestations to the contrary, I'm uneasy about putting "BETA" on my production systems. How long between a "I'll fix that tonight" update of a driver and the time that change gets rolled into the "ENG" code? Is there an easy way to poll the cvs repository for a list of valid version numbers/dates that can be requested? Hroi Sigurdsson wrote: > Hurf Sheldon wrote: > > > Using cvsup to catch up to changes for 4.2-Stable, we ended up with > > 4.3-Beta. > > This is perfectly alright. The -BETA just means that we are approaching > 4.3-RELEASE after which it is called 4.3-STABLE and so on. It is the > same code: > > .. -> 4.2-RELEASE -> 4.2-STABLE -> 4.3-BETA -> 4.3-RELEASE -> 4.3-STABLE > ->.. > > This is a FAQ that really belongs on -questions (reply-to set). > > Cheers. > -- > Hroi Sigurdsson -- Hurf Sheldon Dir. Research Systems Program of Computer Graphics 580 Rhodes Hall, Hoy Rd. Cornell University Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 voice:607 255 6713 fax:607 255 0806 email: hurf@graphics.cornell.edu http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~hurf/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message