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Date:      Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:12:26 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Gustavo Vieira G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: stable vs. release?
Message-ID:  <19981227181226.E12346@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3685E14F.6B1009A6@netshell.vicosa.com.br>; from Gustavo Vieira G C Rios on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 05:27:11AM -0200
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On Sunday, 27 December 1998 at  5:27:11 -0200, Gustavo Vieira G C Rios wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday, 27 December 1998 at  5:10:14 -0200, Gustavo Vieira G C Rios wrote:
>>> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, 26 December 1998 at  5:41:39 -0200, Gustavo Vieira G C Rios wrote:
>>>>> Hi, i installed FreeBSD from the 4 set cdrom, it is version 2.2.7, but
>>>>> it's release, current or stable?
>>>>
>>>> The 2.2.7-RELEASE CD-ROM is -RELEASE.  There are no -STABLE CD-ROMs,
>>>> because -STABLE keeps changing.  -CURRENT CD-ROMs are called snaphots.
>>>>
>>>>> This question dues to i got src-2.2.08* and then a rebuild the world, my
>>>>> itentd is to update from 2.2.7 to 2.2.8, but my uname -s output
>>>>> indicates that i am runnning 2.2.7-stable. Should not it be 2.2.8 ?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it should.  This information is stored in
>>>> /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh: check what you have there.  You don't
>>>> say how you got the 2.2.8 sources, but I suppose it was via cvsup.
>>>> What tag did you use?
>>>>
>>>> If newvers.sh is wrong, there's a chance that you didn't update other
>>>> stuff as well.  You should check your log files (you did log the
>>>> updates, didn't you?) to check that you supped the correct version.
>>>
>>> I got the sources via FTP:
>>> src-2.2-08* from ftp.freebsd.org, and
>>> src-2.2-800xEmpty from ftp.unicamp.br
>>> i did not get it via cvsup!
>>
>> OK.  It would have helped me to know the exact URLs, but I've been
>> looking around on ftp.FreeBSD.org, and in /.2/FreeBSD/CTM/src-2.2 I
>> find that src-2.2-08* date from July 17 to October 14.  800xEmpty
>> dates from July 17, so you have the -STABLE branch as of October 14.
>> At this time, it was 2.2.7.
>>
>> To get up to date, you should also pick up src-2.2-09*, which
>> currently goes up to 0966 (today).
>
> Thank you, very much, you have been very good.
> Just these questions:
> Were my procedures correct?

The rest looked OK.  You didn't say whether you got any error
messages, but I'm assuming you didn't.

> So, i can delete /usr/ctm/0800, right? And just get all the src-2.2-09*
> ?

You have two choices:

1.  Get 2.2-0900xEmpty and 2.2-09*, and apply as before.
2.  Get only 2.2-09*, and apply to the tree you currently have.

The second alternative is much less work: 2.2-0900xEmpty is 36 MB,
whereas 2.2-09* is only about 1.5 MB.  In general, don't throw away
your ctm files: if something goes wrong, you'll be glad to be able to
rebuild the source tree from them.  I had to do that a couple of times
when I was using ctm.

Greg
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