From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 6 09:53:43 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 D415416A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 09:53:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from messenger.m00is.net (messenger.m00is.net [62.3.100.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AC243D1F for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 09:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edmund@m00is.net) Received: from alpha (openwall.m00is.net [62.3.100.169]) by messenger.m00is.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CEE180FE; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:52:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "Edmund Craske" To: "'Mark'" Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:53:34 -0000 Message-ID: <000001c403a3$f2979730$0464a8c0@alpha> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: <200403061734.I26HYKTT063531@asarian-host.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Where is 4.9-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: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 17:53:43 -0000 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" > To: "'Remko Lodder'" ; "'Mark'"=20 > > Cc: > 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