Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:14:31 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld Message-ID: <20051101221431.GA994@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <6452D6F3-E561-4A46-87F5-A062017A87C1@redry.net> References: <73FF4553-3AB1-4BAF-A929-C1E0F8211710@redry.net> <20051101211139.GA96731@flame.pc> <6452D6F3-E561-4A46-87F5-A062017A87C1@redry.net>
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On 2005-11-01 21:37, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote: > On 1 Nov 2005, at 21:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >On 2005-11-01 20:26, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote: > >>Hello > >>Is there a way to tell which freebsd buildworld will make? > > > >You can guess by looking at: > > > > /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > > > >This will give the version of the kernel, which may not be that useful > >for branches that change often, like CURRENT. It's a good > >indication of > >what branch you're building though. > > > >The value of __FreeBSD_version from /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h is also a > >useful number to have. > > Thank you Giorgos > Let me re-phrase the other part of my question... Given the example > supfile: > > *default tag=. > *default host=cvsup99.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default base=/var/db > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > src-all > > This will update to freeBSD-CURRENT > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT Exactly. > How would I modify this supfile to update to 5.4-RELEASE? By using a proper tag= value. For the 5.4-RELEASE version of the sources, this would be: tag=RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE The exact process that leads to the creation of a release branch and the tag that marks the sources of the official release build is described in detail at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.html
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