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To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc: Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Clarification using cvsup-> 4.x-stable 
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Comments: In-reply-to "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
   message dated "Mon, 27 May 2002 21:23:59 -0500."
From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
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If memory serves me right, "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote:
> 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?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE

Bruce.



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