From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 20 00:24:29 2004 Return-Path: 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 92E1416A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:24:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao12.cox.net (lakermmtao12.cox.net [68.230.240.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E509943D39 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:24:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jacoulter@jacoulter.net) Received: from [192.168.1.110] (really [68.105.58.150]) by lakermmtao12.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20041220002427.XCGX1659.lakermmtao12.cox.net@[192.168.1.110]>; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:24:27 -0500 Message-ID: <41C61C35.7060205@jacoulter.net> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:26:29 -0600 From: "James A. Coulter" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:24:29 -0000 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 -- James A. Coulter jacoulter@jacoulter.net http://jacoulter.net