Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:05:10 +0700 (ICT) From: pirat <pirat@access.inet.co.th> To: "Brian D. Woodruff" <wood@soundconcept.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsupped to RELENG_4 but got 4.3-RC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104051059480.688-100000@radwaste.oaep.go.th> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010404211832.020c6b60@pop3.norton.antivirus>
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Brian D. Woodruff wrote: > Hi gang - > > I just did a clean installation of FreeBSD 4.2 from the floppies and the > Internet, and then proceeded to do a "make world". > > I installed the cvsup package (and then did a deinstall-reinstall; I've > noticed that's necessary of late) and modified the stock stable-supfile to > work with cvsup9.freebsd.org; though I made no other modifications to it. > Most importantly; this line was not changed: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > > When I went into the /usr/src directory and typed > > make world > > everything went as normal (I made a new kernel, too, using the steps in > Lehey's book) but when I re-started the machine, I got > > > FreeBSD 4.3-RC (BMEWORLD) #0: Wed Apr 4 20:48:05 CDT 2001 > > > much to my surprise. > > I quickly learned that RC is for Release Candidate, which would inticate to > me that it's somewhere between CURRENT and RELEASE, but nowhere near STABLE!! > > HELP! > > Here are my questions: > > 1.) is there a way to specify 4.2-STABLE, which is what I have been using? > 2.) is this a mistake? If so, when will it be corrected? > after cvsup do this grep '^BRANCH' /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to see if you got a STABLE or just an RC version and you can later on make your own decision if to make world or did another cvsup. rgds, psr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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