From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Sep 11 18:53:49 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 F16F037B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E3E43E75 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@bsdprophet.org) Received: from bsdprophet.org (adsl-66-141-64-9.dsl.okcyok.swbell.net [66.141.64.9]) by pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.3 da nor stuldap/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8C1rh2f537310; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:53:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3D7FF3A8.3060301@bsdprophet.org> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:53:44 -0500 From: Scott Corey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -STABLE versus -PRERELEASE References: <200209111722.53922.djohnson@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 You are fine, October 1st is the release date for 4.7. -Stable is where the source code will be taken from for that release. You are fine, no wasted time at all. Have fun and enjoy! Johnson David wrote: > I just spent a lot of work getting sources via CTM and building/installing. I > was expecting to see a -STABLE FreeBSD, but instead I see a 4.7-PRERELEASE. > Is this the same thing? I hope I didn't waste the last four hours for > nothing... > > If this isn't -STABLE, then where does one get -STABLE via CTM? I can't use > anoncvs or cvsup because of a firewall here at work. > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- People who Love *nix use FreeBSD People who Hate Windows use ----- X. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message