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From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
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To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>,
	"DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" <daleco@daleco.biz>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 02:02:17 -0500
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I haven't yet found at freebsd.org  any articles
describing the new features of 5.0. Is there
a url for this?

Thanks,

Dave Feustel

On Sunday 13 October 2002 02:49 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 07:48:42PM -0500, DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions 
people' wrote:
> > So, will I be still on the 4.x branch with a
> > RELENG_4 tag in my supfiles? (I'm assuming so,
> > from my understanding, which might have come
> > from actually reading the Handbook :-)
>
> Yes.  When 5.0 goes stable a new 'RELENG_5' branch will be created,
> which tag you'll need to insert into your supfiles if you want to
> switch to 5.x.  At the same time as the creation of RELENG_5, current
> will become 6-CURRENT.
>
> Of course, upgrading from 4.x to 5.x is undoubtedly going to be a bit
> more involved than just changing the tags in the supfile and going
> through the usual build{world,kernel} sequence.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew

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