Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:30:38 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: JoeB <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Subject: Re: /usr/src/UPDATING Message-ID: <20030113213038.GC29004@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030113202241.GA11756@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20030113170848.GA1302@gothmog.gr> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEFJDDAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> <20030113202241.GA11756@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:22:41PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:00:20PM -0500, JoeB wrote: > > Thanks this is what I was looking for, But after viewing > > the URL you posted I see info for all the releases of FBSD. > > I thought the /usr/src/UPDATING file that was on the > > install CD for FBSD 4.7 only contained the detail info > > on the updates to create FBSD 4.7 since the FBSD 4.6 release > > was frozen? > > The UPDATING file dates back to before 4.0-RELEASE, and contains notes > of various modifications to the source that may cause problems to > people updating their systems, as well as various other notes useful > in that situation. > > Did you perhaps mean the release notes: > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/relnotes-i386.html which list the > changes made to the system since the previous release? > > Cheers, > > Matthew Or, if you just wanted the version of UPDATING that was on the 4.7 CDs, scroll to the bottom of http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING, select 'RELENG_4_7' in the 'View only Branch' box and hit the 'Set' button. I assume that the CDs would have been cut using the RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE tag, so the version you want is probably the last one on the page, 1.73.2.74. I suspect Matthew is right and you were really looking for the release notes, though. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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