Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:26:29 -0600 From: "James A. Coulter" <jacoulter@jacoulter.net> To: Paul <volante@westnet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -stable Message-ID: <41C61C35.7060205@jacoulter.net> In-Reply-To: <DOEGKIKHEFOPFBKLAEDOOEADCAAA.volante@westnet.com.au> References: <DOEGKIKHEFOPFBKLAEDOOEADCAAA.volante@westnet.com.au>
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Paul wrote:
> hi,
> i currently installed 4.10-release and cvsup to get -stable but it gave me
> 4.11-prelease is there a current tag
> that allow me to get 4.10-stable?
> regards,
> paul
>
The same thing happened to me. After some googling, I found this:
"RELENG_4 marks the 4-STABLE branch. OS names along this branch
all have the major version number 4 but *aren't* tied to any
particular minor version number. Those change about every four
months. Yes, a 4.8-STABLE OS did exist, for a few months after
4.8-RELEASE came out. That was back between April and August
2003. Then that code branch was successively relabelled (over the
course of a few weeks) as 4.9-PRERELEASE, 4.9-RC, etc. until for a
vanishingly short time it was technically 4.9-RELEASE and then
became 4.9-STABLE. At which it remained until a few weeks ago
when it became 4.10-BETA, etc. etc. until right now, you get
4.10-STABLE. 4.10-RELEASE hasn't quite happened yet: any day now
though."
http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg17655.html
I don't think we can go back to 4.10-STABLE using the stable branch tag.
4.10-STABLE has become 4.11-PRERELEASE and will soon become
4.11-STABLE itself (scheduled date is 24 January 2005 - release schedule
here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html)
HTH
Jim
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