From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 10 18:53:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3CC37B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 18:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12552; Thu, 10 May 2001 18:51:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200105110151.SAA12552@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Simple question about cvsup: 4.2R -> STABLE In-Reply-To: <20010510013144.E313@dataloss.net> from Peter van Dijk at "May 10, 1 01:31:44 am" To: peter@dataloss.net (Peter van Dijk) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:51:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:32:33AM +0100, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > I have FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE installed and and want to pass it to STABLE. > > > > I have already started cvsup with the stable-supfile configured with > > "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4". > > > > I want to know if this is correct of should have to upgrade to 4.3R and > > then pass to the STABLE version. > > RELENG_4 is just fine. However, why not go to 4.3R and stay there? The > tag for 4.3R is RELENG_4_3_0_RELEASE. For going to 4.3-STABLE, that > RELENG_4 tag works fine. Even better would be the tag "RELENG_4_3", which is the 4.3 release with security and bug fixes, but with no "merged from current" new functionality. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message