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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:32:23 -0700
From:      Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: question on cvsup
Message-ID:  <3F6D0DB7.7306BFA1@dessent.net>
References:  <E1A0tkd-0003mg-00@snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net>

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ALIAS wrote:
> 
> i read the manual that came with my freebsd4 package. and i see on the
> website that there's a freebsd5, i want to use cvsup to update my system to
> version 5, and i don't know how to do that, the manual doesn't explain it
> well. can someone help me?

In the supfile that you use with cvsup, there's a line similar to
"*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_8".  This specifies which version of
the sources you want to sync to.  The handbook has a list of all the
tags at
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html>;

But you should also be aware that 5.x (aka CURRENT) is not for everyone,
you should read the handbook section at
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html>;
that discusses who should use STABLE and who should use CURRENT.

Brian



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