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Date:      Sat, 6 Mar 2004 11:39:40 -0600
From:      Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where is 4.9-STABLE?
Message-ID:  <200403061139.40336.racerx@makeworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <200403061734.I26HYKTT063531@asarian-host.net>
References:  <000301c40395$7e6c1740$0464a8c0@alpha> <200403061734.I26HYKTT063531@asarian-host.net>

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On Saturday 06 March 2004 11:34 am, Mark wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edmund Craske" <edmund@m00is.net>
> To: "'Remko Lodder'" <remko@elvandar.org>; "'Mark'"
> <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:10 PM
> Subject: RE: Where is 4.9-STABLE?
>
> > This isn't 4.9-STABLE, of course, but the security patch branch
> > of 4.9-RELEASE. Hope this does the job for you all the same.
> > If you actually want STABLE, the cvs tag needs to be RELENG_4
> > rather than RELENG_4_9.
>
> Thanks. Yes, I already figured this out, and compiled with the RELENG_4
> tag.
>
> :)
>
> Yes, I wanted STABLE, because, allegedly, it has support for the Promise
> 8237 SATA controller I plan to use:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/hardware/i386/x27.html#AEN33
>
> P.S. I added "ports-all" to my supfile; the entire ports tree got deleted;
> but I did not get anything back! That was not cool. But I grabbed the
> entire tar.gz from the FreeBSD website, and installed it manually again.
>
> Everything seems fine again. Thanks again.
>
> - Mark

CVSup of the src and the ports generally are 2 files. Look for a ports-supfile
in src/share/examples/cvsup/
-- 
Best regards,
Chris



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