Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:24:49 -0800 (PST) From: saxon <saxon@cydonia.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990116112211.22842A-100000@cydonia.net> In-Reply-To: <19990115012959.A28401@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Well. Like I said. I am the newbie on the block here. I may be mistaken about the version number I am on, but I don't think so.. Well, looks like I am on Release actualy. Here is what is says when I log into the system. FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE (THEBES) #2: Wed Dec 30 13:29:09 PST 1998 On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > 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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