Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:53:34 -0000 From: "Edmund Craske" <edmund@m00is.net> To: "'Mark'" <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Where is 4.9-STABLE? Message-ID: <000001c403a3$f2979730$0464a8c0@alpha> In-Reply-To: <200403061734.I26HYKTT063531@asarian-host.net>
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What happened here is that the ports tree only has a HEAD or . tag, and it was trying to get the RELENG_4 tagged ports collection, which doesn't exist. Best if you use a separate ports supfile. Ed > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark [mailto:admin@asarian-host.net]=20 > Sent: 06 March 2004 17:35 > To: Edmund Craske > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Where is 4.9-STABLE? >=20 >=20 > ----- Original Message -----=20 > From: "Edmund Craske" <edmund@m00is.net> > To: "'Remko Lodder'" <remko@elvandar.org>; "'Mark'"=20 > <admin@asarian-host.net> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:10 PM > Subject: RE: Where is 4.9-STABLE? >=20 >=20 > > This isn't 4.9-STABLE, of course, but the security patch branch of=20 > > 4.9-RELEASE. Hope this does the job for you all the same. If you=20 > > actually want STABLE, the cvs tag needs to be RELENG_4 rather than=20 > > RELENG_4_9. >=20 > Thanks. Yes, I already figured this out, and compiled with=20 > the RELENG_4 tag. > :) >=20 > Yes, I wanted STABLE, because, allegedly, it has support for=20 > the Promise 8237 SATA controller I plan to use: >=20 http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/hardware/i386/x27.html#AEN33 P.S. I added "ports-all" to my supfile; the entire ports tree got = deleted; but I did not get anything back! That was not cool. But I grabbed the entire tar.gz from the FreeBSD website, and installed it = manually again. Everything seems fine again. Thanks again. - Mark
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