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Date:      Sat, 11 May 2002 23:54:57 -0400
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems updating to 4.5-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20020512035457.GC35818@laptop.lambertfam.org>
In-Reply-To: <1021061301.3372.39.camel@kenjiro>
References:  <1021061301.3372.39.camel@kenjiro>

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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.

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