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Subject: Re: 5.3-STABLE ????
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On Monday 18 October 2004 09:56, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> No -- that's expected.  Once the RELENG_5_3 branch was created, the
> RELENG_5 branch would be relabeld as -STABLE.  Note that these are
> just technical changes to the CVS repository and that all they do is
> presage the actual release/launch of those OS versions.  ie. You might
> be seeing 5.3-STABLE in your uname(1) output, but it isn't official
> until the project announces it.
>
> If your eventual aim is to install 5.3-RELEASE, this would be a good
> time to change your supfile to track RELENG_5_3.  Again -- that's just
> producing release candidates at the moment: the release isn't official
> until it's announced.

if 5.3 hits the -STABLE tag does that mean my 4.*-STABLE boxes are going to 
download the 5.*-STABLES sources or are they safe with their tag ?