Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:29:59 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: saxon <saxon@cydonia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <19990115012959.A28401@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990115165147.20144A-100000@cydonia.net> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990115165147.20144A-100000@cydonia.net>
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saxon wrote: > As I went through the process of updating the system, two things occured. > > 1) At the end of the process, it says I am not in the USA. I selected that > I am in the USA on the little script that runs the cvs thing. Why would it > say I'm not? You might need to put USA_RESIDENT=YES in /etc/make.conf. Disclaimer: this is a guess, I don't know what the exact situation is. If that already is in make.conf, I don't know. > 2) It says that I need to put a "." in instead of the other options if I > am working on 3.0. However, this is for the 3.0-current. I am running > 3.0 stable and would like to restore my source tree and everything to it's > original state. um. I didn't know 3.0-stable existed yet. Did I miss something? (I thought current was going to branch into 3.1-stable and 4.0-current on the 20th. Or something. Can someone clear this up please? Now I have to decide which path to take...) > Question: Is this the proper way to stay up to date with newer versions of > the 3.0-stable version? > I want to be able to catch all the little updates that come out but am far > from being brave enough to tackle -current. "little updates" are only applied to current. As I understand it, the -stable branch only receives well tested bug fixes. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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