From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 25 17:33:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from netmug.org (netmug.org [204.188.144.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA5E14EE2 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:33:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perl@netmug.org) Received: from localhost (perl@localhost) by netmug.org (8.8.8/NetMUG_1.0.0) with ESMTP id RAA03586; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:31:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:31:33 -0800 (PST) From: perl To: John Hennessy Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Achieving 3.1-STABLE In-Reply-To: <199902260118.JAA04337@starfish.hendigital.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, John Hennessy wrote: > I have read the available documentation but seemed to have missed > something here. > > People speak of 3.1-RELEASE and 3.1-STABLE. > I have a copy of 3.1-RELEASE but wish to move to STABLE for the obvious > reasons. I'm curious, what are those reasons? > As I understood it 3.1-RELEASE is built on the 3.0-STABLE branch. > > How do I achieve STABLE with my existing RELEASE. > Is it simply a matter of applying the code that lives in the 3.1-STABLE > directory found on the FTP site. Install cvsup from either the package or the port then check out /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile. Also take a look at the handbook. Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message