Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:03:14 -0500 From: "Glenn Johnson" <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov> To: "Doug" <Doug@gorean.org>, "Mike Steinfeld" <mike@freebsdbox.com> Cc: <FreeBSD-STABLE@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.3-STABLE Message-ID: <003101bf008f$46ba48c0$2e5685c7@srrc.usda.gov> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909161507010.26854-100000@dt014nb6.san.rr.com>
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From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Subject: Re: 3.3-STABLE > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Mike Steinfeld wrote: > > > Well , isnt is lovely. > > > > I woke up this morning expecting to see 3.3-R and after building a fresh > > kernel i wound up with 3.3-Stable ... which it was a great surprise .. > > Just to let everyone know, the build was smooth as can be. > > -RELEASE tags specify a brief moment in time. Think of the CVS > tree like a very long thread. Think of laying down a -RELEASE tag as > taking an infinitely precise magic marker and marking a point on that > thread. At that point the thread is called 3.3-RELEASE. Right after that > point the "name" of the thread is 3.3-STABLE (vastly oversimplified of > course), but it's all the same thread. :) One other special thing about the RELEASE tag is that the tree is frozen for some period of time before a release date. At least that was my understanding. So how would I specify the 'tag= ' field in my cvsup file if I want to obtain FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE as opposed to STABLE? Thanks in advance. -- Glenn Johnson gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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