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Subject: Re: CVSup: upgrade to 5-current
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote:
> On 02/19/05 14:41, Remington wrote:
> >I am attempting to upgrade from 5.3-RELEASE to 5.4-CURRENT. The line
> >*default release=cvs tag=. seems to work but newvers.sh claims it to be
> >6.0. What is the correct *default entry?
> 
> There is no 5.4-CURRENT.  The tag is correct to get you -CURRENT, but in 
> this case you are actually getting 6.0-CURRENT.
> 
> If you want to stick with the 5.x branch, use tag=RELENG_5.  That will 
> get you 5.3-STABLE, the branch that will lead to 5.4-RELEASE.

I did that last night and ended up with 5.4-prerelease or something
similar.  If one wants 5.3-stable, they need to use this tag:

tag=RELENG_5_3

At least that is what I found in my reading last night and am starting
all over so I can get to 5.3-stable.