From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 19:12:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4C637B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from cliff.msbb.uc.edu (cliff.msbb.uc.edu [129.137.2.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B8043F3F for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:12:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troyertm@email.uc.edu) Received: from email.msbb.uc.edu (mail.uc.edu [10.23.1.162]) by cliff.msbb.uc.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA18842; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:16:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from email.uc.edu (jesys.calh.uc.edu [10.129.4.60]) by email.msbb.uc.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA23730; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:20:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E5598BE.2030200@email.uc.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:10:54 -0500 From: Travis Troyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20030104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup Tags and release status References: <3E559505.6030703@email.uc.edu> <20030221030447.GA9846@rot13.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:55:01PM -0500, Travis Troyer wrote: > > >>This says that RELENG_4 is for FreeBSD-STABLE and that RELENG_5_0 is >>"used only for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes." >> Is this still the case now that 5.0 is the current release version? I >>installed FreeBSD using the 5.0-Release ISO and want the most current, >>but stable packages, so I'm not sure which tag to use. > > > There's no such thing as "stable packages", because the ports > collection is not branched. So what tag should I use for "FreeBSD-STABLE," as the handbook refers to it? Is RELENG_4 still correct? >>Also, I'm trying to install NVidia's geforce driver, which says it is >>for FreeBSD -STABLE version 4.7 or later. When I try to compile it, it >>says that "This driver does not support FreeBSD 5.0/-CURRENT!" If I >>installed FreeBSD from the 5.0-Release ISO, wouldn't I be running >>5.0-Stable and not 5.0-Current? > > > No, but anyway the point is that Nvidia doesn't support 5.0-anything. > The driver will probably work if you remove the warning, but you're on > your own support-wise. > > Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message