Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:29:38 +0000 (GMT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 Available... Message-ID: <20111119103229.F08CE106564A@hub.freebsd.org> References: <4EC6411A.2030703@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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> On 18/11/2011 10:53, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_9
> > Am I screwed, am I OK, or do I simply have to rerun csup with RELENG_9_0 instead of RELENG_9 ?
> Not screwed, but you'll be running 9.0-PRERELEASE rather than 9.0-RC2.
> If you want to switch to the 9.0-RELEASE branch, change the tag to
> RELENG_9_0 and cvsup again. Then redo the whole buildworld dance.
> Cheers,
> Matthew
> --
> Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
Good to know I'm not screwed, that I can recover simply by rerunning csup, this time with RELENG_9_0 instead of RELENG_9.
But I hadn't got to making buildworld yet on this update.
Possibly there may be no serious difference between 9.0-PRERELEASE and 9.0-RC2 at this stage.
As for the difference between STABLE and RELEASE, I believe STABLE is a sort of POSTRELEASE, like the post-release update to NetBSD 5.1 that permitted access to Linux ext2fs partition that didn't work previously with NetBSD; inode was 256 bytes.
I think FreeBSD 9-STABLE (RELENG_9) would be development work toward FreeBSD 9.1, after FreeBSD 9.0 is released, but stabler than current/head.
I looked in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvars.sh and indeed found that I had 9.0-PRERELEASE rather than RC2.
Tom
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