From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 12:28:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B858737B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu (williams.mc.Vanderbilt.Edu [160.129.208.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C38443E6A for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:28:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drew-list-freebsd-chat@rain3s.net) Received: (qmail 20223 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2002 19:28:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu) (127.0.0.1) by williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu with SMTP; 23 Oct 2002 19:28:31 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:28:29 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where are the 4.7 release sources? Message-ID: <20021023192829.GU21254@sproul.rain3s.net> References: <20021023184750.GT21254@sproul.rain3s.net> <20021023190111.42598.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021023190111.42598.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> From: Drew Raines Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.62+ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wayne Lubin wrote: > Drew Raines wrote: > > Wayne Lubin wrote: > > > > > > I am not quite sure I understand. If this is the ftp > > > server that holds the 4.7 release sources, then why is it > > > in a folder called 4.0-stable ? > > > > Mailing lists are *not* the first place to go for help. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/ > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html > > I have already been to the references that you point out and > they are not helpful. And BTW why is it that you assumed that > I had not been to them? Because you asked a question that the above documents clearly address. If you don't understand the documentation, then ask a question concerning the documentation. > Let me restate what it is I am looking for. I am looking for > the ftp site that has the 4.7 release sourses much like > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ > > has the sources for current. I'd venture to guess it doesn't exist, most likely because cvsup obviates the need for it. However, you discredited that (superior) solution with your original question. > I know this seems like simplistic and newbie in nature type > of question, but it is beginning to turn out to be far from > it. What makes you think so? > As of yet neither I nor anyone else has seem to point me into a > definitive direction in this matter. No response usually means you asked a poor question. -Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message