From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 9 12:10:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C2237B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mediaodyssey.com (mail.mediaodyssey.com [206.168.47.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E8943E4A for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcatee@mediaodyssey.com) Received: from jim (unverified [206.168.47.39]) by mail.mediaodyssey.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.6) with SMTP id for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:10:46 -0600 Message-ID: <01c101c23fd8$78b4b5f0$272fa8ce@jim> From: "Jim McAtee" To: References: <019d01c23fd7$2d44d740$272fa8ce@jim> Subject: Re: Using CVSup Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:10:48 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Shoot, I just noticed this at the URL I gave below: ----------------- RELENG_4 The line of development for FreeBSD-4.X, also known as FreeBSD-STABLE. ----------------- So, is -STABLE considered the "latest, safest, bug-fixed" version, or is RELEASE a safer bet? Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McAtee" To: Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: Using CVSup > I'm attempting to learn how to use CVSup to update my system, including > source and ports. When I installed BSD on the test system I'm playing with, > I installed no source and no ports at the time. > > Here's my supfile: > > *default host=cvsup8.freebsd.org > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs > *default deltee use-rel-suffix > *default tag=RELEN_4_6_1_RELEASE > src-all > *default tag=. > ports-all > doc-all > > First question I have (DUMB question): What version do I want to download? > I think I understand the difference between STABLE and CURRENT, but I'm > unsure of their relationship to RELEASE version tags. If the following tags > are the only ones available: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html > > then how would you update to the latest STABLE? Or would I want to? > > Second, is there a simple means of constructing a refuse file which will not > download non-English versions of anything? > > Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message