From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 5 11:03:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 978E016A41F for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 11:03:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from smtp13.wxs.nl (smtp13.wxs.nl [195.121.247.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6CD43D46 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 11:03:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from smtp.planet.nl (ip51cc8423.speed.planet.nl [81.204.132.35]) by smtp13.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IPH00I5GAQEWM@smtp13.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:03:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.planet.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA5B3o2P001233; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:03:50 +0100 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id jA5B3mfe001232; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:03:48 +0100 Content-return: prohibited Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:03:48 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <20051101221431.GA994@flame.pc> To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-id: <20051105110348.GC837@Alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <73FF4553-3AB1-4BAF-A929-C1E0F8211710@redry.net> <20051101211139.GA96731@flame.pc> <6452D6F3-E561-4A46-87F5-A062017A87C1@redry.net> <20051101221431.GA994@flame.pc> X-Authentication-warning: Alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f Cc: eoghan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:03:52 -0000 On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:14:31AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-11-01 21:37, eoghan wrote: > > On 1 Nov 2005, at 21:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >On 2005-11-01 20:26, eoghan wrote: > > >>Hello > > >>Is there a way to tell which freebsd buildworld will make? > > > > > >You can guess by looking at: > > > > > > /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > > > > > >This will give the version of the kernel, which may not be that useful > > >for branches that change often, like CURRENT. It's a good > > >indication of > > >what branch you're building though. > > > > > >The value of __FreeBSD_version from /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h is also a > > >useful number to have. > > > > Thank you Giorgos > > Let me re-phrase the other part of my question... Given the example > > supfile: > > > > *default tag=. > > *default host=cvsup99.FreeBSD.org > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default base=/var/db > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > > > src-all > > > > This will update to freeBSD-CURRENT > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT > > Exactly. > > > How would I modify this supfile to update to 5.4-RELEASE? > > By using a proper tag= value. For the 5.4-RELEASE version of the > sources, this would be: > > tag=RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE > > The exact process that leads to the creation of a release branch and the > tag that marks the sources of the official release build is described in > detail at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.html You may like to use tag=RELENG_5_4 instead and get some patches to. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howto's based on my ppersonal use, including information about setting up a firewall and creating traffic graphs with MRTG http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/