Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:04:47 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Travis Troyer <troyertm@email.uc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup Tags and release status Message-ID: <20030221030447.GA9846@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3E559505.6030703@email.uc.edu> References: <3E559505.6030703@email.uc.edu>
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--XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:55:01PM -0500, Travis Troyer wrote: > This says that RELENG_4 is for FreeBSD-STABLE and that RELENG_5_0 is=20 > "used only for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes."= =20 > Is this still the case now that 5.0 is the current release version? I= =20 > installed FreeBSD using the 5.0-Release ISO and want the most current,=20 > but stable packages, so I'm not sure which tag to use. There's no such thing as "stable packages", because the ports collection is not branched. > Also, I'm trying to install NVidia's geforce driver, which says it is=20 > for FreeBSD -STABLE version 4.7 or later. When I try to compile it, it= =20 > says that "This driver does not support FreeBSD 5.0/-CURRENT!" If I=20 > installed FreeBSD from the 5.0-Release ISO, wouldn't I be running=20 > 5.0-Stable and not 5.0-Current? No, but anyway the point is that Nvidia doesn't support 5.0-anything. The driver will probably work if you remove the warning, but you're on your own support-wise. Kris --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+VZdPWry0BWjoQKURAsIWAKDpO8fuep6tGG0ivB5sNzBwWGO17gCeONvF q7+BQGnWdvcHqhBTm4O/gQE= =n0O5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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