From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 10:26:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79ABD106566C for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:26:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2428FC16 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:26:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Wa9k1a00H0cQ2SLA9aSaWS; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:26:34 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id WaSY1a0012P6wsM8WaSYUV; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:26:33 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=WcZtWtu7Buo2Wvz5f6kA:9 a=Q3hPefyPeeGCK3moEksA:7 a=KpL-OWwjjqZQ8o0Eqh_eJGw3I3oA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 53EEEC9439; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:26:32 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Masoom Shaikh Message-ID: <20081024102632.GA11709@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:26:34 -0000 On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 03:07:32PM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > Hi folks, > y'day I csuped the src and built installed the kernel from RELENG_7 > I was expecting FreeBSD-BETA2 in output of `uname -a` > it is still -PRERELEASE, is it by decision or I have to change something ? > > I greped /usr/src for PRERELEASE but cud not locate it. I guess release > engineering team does that. comments ? This question keeps coming up. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-October/184992.html RELENG_7 == PRERELEASE. There is no "BETA2" tag to follow. No one is sure at this point where the "BETA2" string has come from (meaning why it was idealised or why it's being used). I'm of the belief that it's something Ken is hand-hacking in newvers.sh before building + making ISO releases and putting them up on the mirrors. And I am also of the opinion that this should stop, and we should simply name the releases PRERELEASE-YYYYMMDD to signify the build date. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |