From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 27 19:24: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2A037B404 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 19:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 60D633198D4; Mon, 27 May 2002 21:23:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 21:23:59 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Doug Silver Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clarification using cvsup-> 4.x-stable Message-ID: <20020528022359.GG93060@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: Doug Silver , stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 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 On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 07:19:33PM -0700, Doug Silver wrote: > I just want to make sure the sources I just got are correct as originally > I wanted to get 4.5-stable, so I put this in my cvsup file: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > > did the buildworld/buildkernel fine, but upon reboot I see this: > > # uname -rs > FreeBSD 4.6-RC 4.6-RC is the -stable branch during a certain period of time preceding 4.6-STABLE I think its documented somewhere, but we really need to make it readily available because this question is asked quite often. Does anyone know a url that describes this? -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message