From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 11 20:55:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.196.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E9E37B408 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 20:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.inch.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAAA34FF0 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 23:53:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (TC4-dial-67-195.oldslip.inch.com [216.223.195.67]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B538734D92 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 23:53:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ED59728B09; Sat, 11 May 2002 23:54:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 23:54:57 -0400 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems updating to 4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <20020512035457.GC35818@laptop.lambertfam.org> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <1021061301.3372.39.camel@kenjiro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1021061301.3372.39.camel@kenjiro> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Saad Kadhi wrote: > Dear all, > > This is my first posting to this venerable list so please bear with me. > Today I set to upgrade a 4.5-RELEASE (installed some time ago from the > official isos available from ftp.freebsd.org) system to 4.5-STABLE. So > basically what I did is RTFM thru the handbook, then I installed cvsup > as indicated and launched it with the following supfile: > > *default host=cvsup.fi.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs > *default tag=RELENG_4 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > src-all > > Some time ago, I upgraded a 4.3-RELEASE to 4.3-STABLE so I was expecting > to see 4.5-STABLE (or 4.6-PRERELEASE) after making the world/kernel. But > to my surprise, I got a "FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p4". I have quite an As far as I know, the only way you could wind up with FreeBSD 4.5-REL'p4 is if your tag were RELENG_4_5. You may want to double check your supfile. The supfile you show should have given you what you wanted. > 2. point me to some definitive resource to understand the differences > between RELEASE(-p.)?, and STABLE once and for all http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvs-tags.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.html You may also find Terry Lambert's posting(s) on this topic useful. It was on this list May 2 and 3, 2002. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html 3 years Sr. SysAdmin experience with FreeBSD in small & medium size ISPs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message