From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 05:52:17 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 6247F106567C; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:52:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from hawk.thalamus.net (hawk.thalamus.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE3F8FC0A; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:52:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost.thalamus.net [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.thalamus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260371EE990; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:52:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thalamus.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 2.404 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.404 tagged_above=-999 required=4.2 tests=[AWL=-0.765, HELO_LH_HOME=3.169] Received: from hawk.thalamus.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hawk.thalamus.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ub6E9ko1bvKQ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:52:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lesbsdpc.homenet.home (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by hawk.thalamus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03DF1EEA0C; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:52:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4901628B.8040603@eskk.nu> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:52:11 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081001) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <49014E18.9010209@eskk.nu> <20081024042710.GA4254@icarus.home.lan> <490151E1.6090909@eskk.nu> <20081024053044.GB5231@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081024053044.GB5231@icarus.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:52:17 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick skrev: > 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: I got it from here http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046037.html /Leslie > > 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. > >