Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:21:50 +0200 From: George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> To: "Luchesar V. ILIEV" <luchesar.iliev@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 Available... Message-ID: <CA%2BdUSyouuRtaT_s9H1e4KFv4RJfVqisqYfKjtN15Hrut_AB6sA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EC6431F.7000806@gmail.com> References: <1321553970.82271.66.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <20111118105339.1CE9D1065688@hub.freebsd.org> <4EC6431F.7000806@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Luchesar V. ILIEV <luchesar.iliev@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/11/2011 12:53, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms to access the source >>> tree the branch tag to use is now "RELENG_9_0", if you use "." (head) >>> you will get 10-CURRENT. =A0If you would like to access the source tree >>> via SVN it is "svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.0/". =A0We still hav= e >>> the nit that the creation of a new SVN branch winds up causing what >>> looks like a check-in of the entire tree in CVS (a side-effect of the >>> svn2cvs exporter) so "mergemaster -F" is your friend if you are using >>> csup/cvsup. >> >> About a couple days before seeing this message, or the message on the Fr= eeBSD web site, but after seeing RC2 on the ftp.freebsd.org server, >> I already ran csup with >> >> *default release=3Dcvs tag=3DRELENG_9 >> >> Am I screwed, am I OK, or do I simply have to rerun csup with RELENG_9_0= instead of RELENG_9 ? > > RELENG_9 (cvs) =3D stable/9 (svn) =3D 9.N-STABLE (newvers.sh, `uname -r`) > RELENG_9_0 (cvs) =3D releng/9.0 (svn) =3D 9.0-RELEASE (newvers.sh, uname) > > In short, if you want to use the 9.0-RELEASE (when it finally gets > ready), then you need to switch to RELENG_9_0. If you prefer using > -STABLE for your systems, then you're OK with RELENG_9. > > In case you don't know or are not quite sure about the differences > between -RELEASE and -STABLE, I'd recommend switching to RELENG_9_0. > >> Again, I can't find that file (needle in the haystack) in /usr/src tree = that shows version number such as RC2. > > This has already been answered, but just a quick note. If you've > recently updated your sources using the RELENG_9 tag, you'll most likely > see the version in newvers.sh as: > > REVISION=3D"9.0" > BRANCH=3D"PRERELEASE" > > If you switch to RELENG_9_0 and update your sources again, you should > see the familiar: > > REVISION=3D"9.0" > BRANCH=3D"RC2" > > HTH, > Luchesar > > -- > i.dea.is/luchesar > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > Correct me if I am wrong but up until 9.0 is released there isn't any practical difference between RELENG_9 & RELENG_9_0 --=20 George Kontostanos Aicom telecoms ltd http://www.barebsd.com
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