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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 1995 21:58:04 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why can't I just `release=stable' for sup?? 
Message-ID:  <199510300558.VAA03543@aslan.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:58:57 PST." <10309.815025537@time.cdrom.com> 

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>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
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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