From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 05:30:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C41F106566B for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:30:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AF78FC20 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:30:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.36]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id WCzi1a0040mlR8UA9VWmpD; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:30:46 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id WVWl1a0022P6wsM8XVWlRs; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:30:46 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=LmO63_hY2J9H8N-sTq4A:9 a=PAbSQZUA-hIzuLy11Y4A:7 a=Ul-Q2uOYAV96PAYAZ31ILX8X1OcA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0B003C9432; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:30:44 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Leslie Jensen Message-ID: <20081024053044.GB5231@icarus.home.lan> References: <49014E18.9010209@eskk.nu> <20081024042710.GA4254@icarus.home.lan> <490151E1.6090909@eskk.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <490151E1.6090909@eskk.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Ken Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 7.1-PRERELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:30:47 -0000 On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:41:05AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick skrev: >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:24:56AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: >>> I'm running 7.1-PRERELEASE. Yesterday I csup'ed and upgraded as I've >>> done several times in order to install 7.1-BETA2. Everything went as >>> it should, but my system still says 7.1-PRERELEASE. In my >>> stable-supfile I have "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7". >>> >>> Can anyone tell me where I can make sure that my system upgrades to BETA-2? >> >> You are essentially running BETA2, with even newer fixes since the BETA2 >> release. You should stay with the RELENG_7 tag. >> > Thanks Jeremy > I thought that the uname tag would change to "BETA-2" I sincerely do not know where "BETA2" (not "BETA-2") comes from. It's not defined anywhere in src/sys/conf/newvers.sh in CVS: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh To me, this means someone is hand-hacking the file before making ISO releases. The problem with this is there's no way to correlate what CVS tag said string is based on; I have to assume it's RELENG_7. CC'ing Ken, who can probably explain where "BETA2" comes from, since I believe he's the one who makes the builds. I really wish we'd name our not-yet-RELEASE-or-STABLE ISO releases as FreeBSD x.y-PRERELEASE-YYYYMMDD, which would make more sense to users. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |