From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 29 21:00:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA02459 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 21:00:26 -0800 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA02450 ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 21:00:22 -0800 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA03625; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 22:25:04 -0800 Message-Id: <199510300625.WAA03625@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why can't I just `release=stable' for sup?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 1995 20:54:10 PST." <10580.815028850@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 22:25:04 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> This should work fine. I fixed it quite a while ago. The plan was >> to phase out the old "stable-blah" targets once people switched to >> using the release field correctly, but I guess even you haven't >> done so. > >I've TRIED to do that! You get: > >SUP Upgrade of bin at Sun Oct 29 20:53:06 1995 >SUP Fileserver 9.13 (4.3 BSD) 1864 on freefall.FreeBSD.org at 20:53:06 >SUP Fileserver supports compression. >SUP: Invalid release stable for collection bin >SUP: Upgrade of bin aborted at Oct 29 20:53:06 1995 > >It's never worked for me, not before or after your announcement! :-) Okay, so its src-bin. >> That makes no sense. There is only one CVS tree. > >But you could have `bin' and `release=CVS' to get the "CVS version" of >that distribution rather than making "CVS-bin" another target, yes? > > Jordan That's easy enough to do. Since there are a relatively small number of people supping the CVS tree, we should be able to remove the old collections almost immediately after the change is made. I make the new 'CVS' release now. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================