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Subject: Re: cvsupped to RELENG_4 but got 4.3-RC
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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


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