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Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:39:27 +0900
From:      Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: standard-supfile = stable-supfile with 5.3 ?
Message-ID:  <41909E5F.7020300@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041109103151.40F326147@hoppel.local>
References:  <20041109103151.40F326147@hoppel.local>

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Björn König wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> 
> 
>>[...]
>>both have
>>
>>   *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
>>
>>although the first one claims to download CURRENT.
>>
>>And, eh, why is the filename "standard-supfile" and
>>why not the more obvious "current-supfile" ?
> 
> 
> It only claims, but it doesn't bring you -CURRENT.
 > That's the reason why it should not be renamed.
 > The standard-supfile contains the standard tag of your release
 > to keep it up to date. Maybe someone will change this sentence
 > in standard-supfile to 'This file contains all of the "CVSup
 > collections" that make up the FreeBSD-stable source tree.' soon.

If so, then why do we have a standard-supfile and a stable-supfile doing the
same thing? If both bring you -STABLE, one of the two seems to be redundant
to me and having two sup files doing the same only causes confusion.

R.




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