Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 20:47:50 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar), stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Going stable Message-ID: <11628.831527270@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 May 1996 11:01:22 %2B0930." <199605080131.LAA24880@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> Khetan Gajjar stands accused of saying: > > > > I have been happy with 2.1 release for quite a while now. I want to see > > where we are heading, and want to run stable. I have got the snapshot > > cd-rom and want to install off there (as a dial-up user, I don't feel > > like getting the tree or whatever it's called). > > The SNAP CD is based on -current. You can't downgrade from the SNAP > to -stable. Well, not quite.. Don't forget that the SNAP CD has the CVS tree on it. If he wants to get -stable, he can simply check a copy out of the CVS tree, e.g.: <copy CVS tree from CDROM to /someplace> setenv CVSROOT /someplace cd /usr cvs co -rRELENG_2_1_0 src The reason you need to copy it is that cvs is going to try to write lock information into the repository and that will obviously fail mightily if you point CVSROOT at the CD. That will give you a copy of the -stable sources as of the CD pressing date. > > I know this is described in the ctm section of the handbook, but for a > > newbie user, how do I go from release to stable using this cd-rom ? > > You don't. Not on that SNAP, no, but future CDs will contain the -stable CTM tree as well as the current ones. But Mike's suggestion of reading the CTM section of the handbook is still a very good idea! :-) Jordan
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