From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 12:53: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E9337B719 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2LKgoW10873; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:42:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:42:50 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Hurf Sheldon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Mark Murray , Hroi Sigurdsson Subject: Re: cvsup/cvsupfile question Message-ID: <20010321144250.A3464@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3AB8F56A.9D85E58A@graphics.cornell.edu> <3AB9065A.70BBCAA9@asdf.dk> <3AB90F2A.80A8C3D5@graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i In-Reply-To: <3AB90F2A.80A8C3D5@graphics.cornell.edu>; from "Hurf Sheldon" on Wed Mar 21 15:29:30 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 21), Hurf Sheldon said: > Many Thanks to Mark Murray and Hroi for quick answers. > Since I've moved this to freebsd-questions at Hroi's suggestion, > let me ask some questions... > > I'm curious: > How would we set the cvsupfile to stay with 4.2-STABLE? > Despite Mark's protestations to the contrary, I'm uneasy about > putting "BETA" on my production systems. How long between > a "I'll fix that tonight" update of a driver and the time that change > gets rolled into the "ENG" code? > Is there an easy way to poll the cvs repository for a list > of valid version numbers/dates that can be requested? There is no 4.2-STABLE. In fact there never was a 4.2-STABLE. There was RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE, which was cut to CD, and RELENG_4, also known as -stable. You're cvsupping -stable, which is on the edge of being released as 4.3. They change the version early to catch possible port dependencies on version numbers. If you don't want to run BETA code, wait a few days and the *exact* same source will magically become stable again (4.3-STABLE). Whew. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message