From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 16 15: 3:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nola.srrc.usda.gov (nola.srrc.usda.gov [199.133.86.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20955153C5 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov) Received: from eagle ([199.133.86.46]) by nola.srrc.usda.gov (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA30528; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:58:47 -0500 Message-ID: <003101bf008f$46ba48c0$2e5685c7@srrc.usda.gov> From: "Glenn Johnson" To: "Doug" , "Mike Steinfeld" Cc: References: Subject: Re: 3.3-STABLE Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:03:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Doug 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