From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 29 07:58:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A445737B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc13.attbi.com (sccrmhc13.attbi.com [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C292843FBF for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[24.147.188.198]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003062914584001600oe8uke>; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:58:40 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h5TEwd1V057330 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:58:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h5TEwdep057327; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:58:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <477C2468-A9B7-11D7-B4C5-003065A51656@mac.com> <20030629073353.GA19967@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 29 Jun 2003 10:58:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030629073353.GA19967@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Message-ID: <44ptkx9bhd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: cvsup tag for 4.8-STABLE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:58:41 -0000 Matthew Seaman writes: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:57:15AM +0200, Frank Reppin wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Gregory Norman wrote: > > > > On the same note, will *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_8 work to > > > update from 4.4 Release to 4.8 Stable? > > > yup, it will do the job - involving the required commands > > ofcourse (buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel and so on). > > Read through /usr/src/UPDATING if any special requirements > > have to be satisfied before) > > Errr... tag=RELENG_4_8 will get you 4.8-RELEASE. If you want > 4.8-STABLE, use tag=RELENG_4 Not quite. To quote the handbook: RELENG_4_8 The release branch for FreeBSD-4.8, used only for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes. and RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8 [i.e., the latter is the actual release, and the former is the "release branch," which continues to get updated -- but only for essential changes -- after the actual release.]