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From: "Dr David Hingston" <tortise@paradise.net.nz>
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Subject: Re: Clarification using cvsup-> 4.x-stable 
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:54:37 +1200
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Kewl
So if we want to limit the update to 4.5 stable and not 4.6-RC how do we do
that?
With thanks in advance
David Hingston

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc: "Doug Silver" <dsilver@urchin.com>; <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Clarification using cvsup-> 4.x-stable


> 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-CAND
IDATE
>
> Bruce.
>
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