From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 29 20:34:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA00631 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 20:34:36 -0800 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA00626 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 20:34:34 -0800 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA03543; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 21:58:04 -0800 Message-Id: <199510300558.VAA03543@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I just `release=stable' for sup?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:58:57 PST." <10309.815025537@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 21:58:04 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Right about now, I'm thinking that either: > >A) I don't understand sup. > >B) We did it wrong. > >Because rather than being able to do something like: > > sys release=stable host=freefall.cdrom.com hostbase=/home \ > base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old compress This should work fine. I fixed it quite a while ago. The plan was to phase out the old "stable-blah" targets once people switched to using the release field correctly, but I guess even you haven't done so. > stable-sys release=current host=freefall.cdrom.com hostbase=/home \ > base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old compress > >Same is true for CVS. Bleh! That makes no sense. There is only one CVS tree. >Wouldn't it be nice if "sys" (and all of its brothers and sisters) was >always sys, and only the release= line changed? If nothing else, it >sure would make ~sup on freefall cleaner. Am I missing something here? > > Jordan You must not have read my message to anounce months ago. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================