Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:03:58 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: jsherri1@rochester.rr.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <200103280003.f2S03wc19481@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:29:26 EST." <200103272329.f2RNTQE44886@mirrors.rochester.rr.com>
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> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:29:26 -0500 (EST) > From: jsherri1@rochester.rr.com > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > uname -a now reports \"FreeBSD 4.3-RC\". > > Question 1: If 4.3 isn\'t released until April 15th, should I be getting it > through this process? (I expected to be on 4.2-STABLE or something > similar.) > > Question 2: Am I just misunderstanding how the supfile works? See the handbook and FAQ for details. 4.3 will be released next month. When code-freeze is put into place, the name of the code changes to BETA. When it looks good to go, it is renamed again to RC (Release Candidate). If any further changes are needed before release, you end up with RC2...RCn. The 4-stable branch is now labeled 4.3-RC, so you have exactly what you asked for. If you wait, it will become 4.3-RC2 shortly and will become 4.3-RELEASE for a very short moment before the first commit makes it 4.3-stable. (A new tab will be generated at the RELEASE point which will always return the same code.) So 4.2 is ALMOST 4.3 and is labeled 4.3-RC to let you know that it's VERY close. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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