Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 23:39:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke <freebsd@bolingbroke.com> To: "Brian D. Woodruff" <wood@soundconcept.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Further question Re: cvsupped to RELENG_4 but got 4.3-RC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104042315160.7158-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010404234810.020e2ba0@pop3.norton.antivirus>
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Brian D. Woodruff wrote: > At 10:35 PM 4/4/01 -0400, you wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:32:39PM -0500, Brian D. Woodruff wrote: > > > Here are my questions: > > > > > > 1.) is there a way to specify 4.2-STABLE, which is what I have been using? > > can anyone tell me how to get the STABLE version I want? > > I would rather be consistent across my servers than have some be one > release past the others. If you're using CVS to get RELENG_4 at different points in time, even if they're all 4.2-STABLE, your servers will NOT be consistent anyway. The -STABLE branch is a stream, in constant development. If you update your sources via CVS to build one server, then the next day update sources again to build another server, the two servers will be different. This is the essence of -STABLE, even though it seems to contradict the meaning of the word "stable". :-) If you require absolute consistency across servers, you need to either update all servers from the very same source, or specify an exact CVS tag to get the same sources for all servers. And if it doesn't bother you that your servers are on different points of 4.2-STABLE, then 4.3-RC is just another point a little farther down the development stream. I'd actually consider the -RC to be safer bet than the average -STABLE. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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