Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:12:12 -0700 From: "K Anderson" <freebsduser@comcast.net> To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which version and other updating questions Message-ID: <008d01c5ad10$9dedda60$3264a8c0@opteron> References: <003a01c5acde$e2fb89e0$3264a8c0@opteron> <ef10de9a05082917361f09a919@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- >From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> >To: "K Anderson" <freebsduser@comcast.net> >Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> >Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 5:36 PM >Subject: Re: Which version and other updating questions > >On 8/29/05, K Anderson <freebsduser@comcast.net> wrote: >> I recently did a cvsup and it fetched all sorts of things so I'm a bit >> concerned about what version make buildworld would create. How come the >> Makefile under src/ doesn't have a version of the build about to be >> created >> (The only version information is for the Makefile itself 1.323 but that's >> not very helpful)? If it's there could somebody put it someplace that >> makes >> it easy to find. > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/Makefile That Makefile is for >HEAD > Hey great stuff, but it would still be nice to see a build version in the Make file like the port maintainers do. >> >> And UPDATING has NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 7.x IS SLOW:.... >> But >> that's not helpful because it just tells me that I could inadvertently >> fetch >> 7.x stuff (which I probably just did since I have tag=.). > >It tells you that you *did* fetch 7.x stuff > Ugh, not a big deal though. I'll take your recommendations that you had below and correct the situation. Thanks again. >> >> uname -a reported 6.0-CURRENT (Gack current, doh *feint*). >> >> Here's what my cvsupme5 file looks like --- >> *default host=cvsup7.FreeBSD.org >> *default base=/usr >> *default prefix=/usr >> *default release=cvs tag=. >> *default delete use-rel-suffix >> >> src-all >> ports-all >> >> >> Let me guess, since I'm using tag=. (Otherwise known as HEAD) it's going >> to >> get what ever is bleeding edge? > >Yes. > >> >> Should I change that to tag=RELENG_6 (In hopes that cvsup doesn't grab >> bleeding edge stuff)? > >Yes and remove "ports-all", one supfile for ports and one supfile for >system, here is my systems supfile: >*default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org >*default base=/var/db >*default prefix=/usr >*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 >*default delete use-rel-suffix >*default compress >src-all > >And here is my ports supfile: >*default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org >*default base=/var/db >*default prefix=/usr >*default release=cvs tag=. >*default delete use-rel-suffix >*default compress >ports-all > >The Ports system has no cvs branches, it is always HEAD. > >You can also check here for FreeBSD branch tags: >http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Another good URL. Ugh, were did you learn all these little things from?
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