Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:03:48 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld Message-ID: <20051105110348.GC837@Alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <20051101221431.GA994@flame.pc> References: <73FF4553-3AB1-4BAF-A929-C1E0F8211710@redry.net> <20051101211139.GA96731@flame.pc> <6452D6F3-E561-4A46-87F5-A062017A87C1@redry.net> <20051101221431.GA994@flame.pc>
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:14:31AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-11-01 21:37, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote: > > On 1 Nov 2005, at 21:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >On 2005-11-01 20:26, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote: > > >>Hello > > >>Is there a way to tell which freebsd buildworld will make? > > > > > >You can guess by looking at: > > > > > > /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > > > > > >This will give the version of the kernel, which may not be that useful > > >for branches that change often, like CURRENT. It's a good > > >indication of > > >what branch you're building though. > > > > > >The value of __FreeBSD_version from /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h is also a > > >useful number to have. > > > > Thank you Giorgos > > Let me re-phrase the other part of my question... Given the example > > supfile: > > > > *default tag=. > > *default host=cvsup99.FreeBSD.org > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default base=/var/db > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > > > src-all > > > > This will update to freeBSD-CURRENT > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT > > Exactly. > > > How would I modify this supfile to update to 5.4-RELEASE? > > By using a proper tag= value. For the 5.4-RELEASE version of the > sources, this would be: > > tag=RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE > > The exact process that leads to the creation of a release branch and the > tag that marks the sources of the official release build is described in > detail at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.html You may like to use tag=RELENG_5_4 instead and get some patches to. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howto's based on my ppersonal use, including information about setting up a firewall and creating traffic graphs with MRTG http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/
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