From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 28 6:10: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com [213.105.93.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D8A37B403 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 06:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) Received: (from root@localhost) by pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6SD9t413389; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:09:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from freeloader.freeserve.co.uk (alpha.private [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated) by pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.3/8.11.3av) with ESMTP id f6SD9Pq13170; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:09:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) Message-ID: <3B62B985.9214D1F5@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:09:25 +0100 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Updating RELENG_4_3 References: <3B62A31F.7EF92100@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> <15202.46957.220739.338128@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > > ian j hart types: > > cd /usr/src;make update (CVS) pulls down RELENG_4 not RELENG_4_3. > > There should at least be a warning in UPDATING. Shouldn't > > this be a variable in make.conf? > > cvsup doesn't have an argument to set the tag. Since a single supfile > can fetch multiple collections with different tags, such an argument > doesn't make a lot of sense. > > Which is why make.conf uses the SUPFILE variable to specify a supfile > to use. Either a new file should be added to /usr/share/examples/cvsup > for this branch, or a comment should be added to the stable-supfile. I'm talking about CVS_UPDATE (not SUP_UPDATE), hence the qualification (CVS). > > > While I'm on the subject, different output for uname -a would > > be _really_ useful (4.3-SECURITY?). How else can you tell you > > have RELENG_4_3? > > I think having a name for it would be a good idea in general. For that > new example supfile for example. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message