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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:49:38 +0200
From:      h <h@erathia.be>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 5.3-STABLE ????
Message-ID:  <200410181449.38199.h@erathia.be>
In-Reply-To: <20041018075641.GA24712@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20041018074431.GE35360@ns2.wananchi.com> <20041018075641.GA24712@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Monday 18 October 2004 09:56, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> No -- that's expected.  Once the RELENG_5_3 branch was created, the
> RELENG_5 branch would be relabeld as -STABLE.  Note that these are
> just technical changes to the CVS repository and that all they do is
> presage the actual release/launch of those OS versions.  ie. You might
> be seeing 5.3-STABLE in your uname(1) output, but it isn't official
> until the project announces it.
>
> If your eventual aim is to install 5.3-RELEASE, this would be a good
> time to change your supfile to track RELENG_5_3.  Again -- that's just
> producing release candidates at the moment: the release isn't official
> until it's announced.

if 5.3 hits the -STABLE tag does that mean my 4.*-STABLE boxes are going to 
download the 5.*-STABLES sources or are they safe with their tag ?



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