Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:33:01 -0600 From: "James A. Coulter" <jacoulter@jacoulter.net> To: Paul <volante@westnet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -stable CORRECTION Message-ID: <41C647ED.9050804@jacoulter.net> In-Reply-To: <41C61C35.7060205@jacoulter.net> References: <DOEGKIKHEFOPFBKLAEDOOEADCAAA.volante@westnet.com.au> <41C61C35.7060205@jacoulter.net>
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James A. Coulter wrote: > 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 Sorry, I spoke too soon. Although I didn't find a procedure for it in the handbook, I read appendix A.6, CVS Tags,in the FreeBSD handbook and decided to try changing the default release tag from *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 to: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_10 I then followed the make buildworld procedure in section 19.4 of the handbook and I now have: jacoulter@arlette ~ 314$ uname -a FreeBSD arlette.mshome.net 4.10-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p5 #1: Sun Dec 19 20:43:22 CST 2004 jacoulter@arlette.mshome.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARLETTE i386 So you can go back to 4.10 if that's what you want, but 4.11 should be everything 4.10 was and then some. Jim -- James A. Coulter jacoulter@jacoulter.net http://jacoulter.net
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