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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2002 19:46:00 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc:        Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Clarification using cvsup-> 4.x-stable 
Message-ID:  <200205280246.g4S2k02E074321@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020528022359.GG93060@leviathan.inethouston.net> 
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205271900500.10097-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net> <20020528022359.GG93060@leviathan.inethouston.net>

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If memory serves me right, "David W. Chapman Jr." wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 07:19:33PM -0700, Doug Silver wrote:
> > I just want to make sure the sources I just got are correct as originally
> > I wanted to get 4.5-stable, so I put this in my cvsup file:
> > 
> > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
> > 
> > did the buildworld/buildkernel fine, but upon reboot I see this:
> > 
> > # uname -rs
> > FreeBSD 4.6-RC
> 
> 4.6-RC is the -stable branch during a certain period of time 
> preceding 4.6-STABLE
> 
> I think its documented somewhere, but we really need to make it 
> readily available because this question is asked quite often.  Does 
> anyone know a url that describes this?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE

Bruce.



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