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Date:      Sat, 9 Nov 2002 08:14:38 -0600
From:      "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        "Markus Landgren" <ei1lama@chl.chalmers.se>, <michaeljritchie@bigpond.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <00b501c287fa$57c9c550$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable>
References:  <5.1.1.6.0.20021109181410.01a5f338@mail.bigpond.com> <1036834039.359.18.camel@krell.telia.com>

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From: "Markus Landgren" <ei1lama@chl.chalmers.se>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE


> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 09:51, Michael Ritchie wrote:

> Disclaimer: I am a newbie, so MAKE BACKUPS before following ANY of
my
> advice.
>

Good advice, 'newbie' or not....

> I followed the handbook's instructions for -STABLE but replaced
> "RELENG_4" with "RELENG_4_7" in the cvsupfile, and successfully
ended up
> with 4.7-RELEASE-p1, the patched version of 4.7-RELEASE.
>
> If you for some reason need an unpatched 4.7-RELEASE, that is also
> possible. In that case you need another tag, which I have been told
is
> "RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE". Note: I have not tried that one myself, so
I am
> not sure if that is correct.
>

It is.....

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.ht
ml
...though it seems unlikely you'd want to refuse the patch....

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.


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