From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 3 13:16:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA14169 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 13:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14164 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 13:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA04930; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 13:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 13:15:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-tags (naming conventions) In-Reply-To: <199708020634.DAA08927@srv1-bsb.gns.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > I never quite right understood the naming convention -stable? > The cvsup files say that 2.1.0-RELENG is the -stable. By cvsuping -stable > over my 2.2.2R, it did erase lots of files, notably /etc/rc.conf. I found > this quite annoying. > My concern is this. I need to run stable servers and I can't spare the > time to be running -current give-it-a-shot servers. I need > most-recent-release plus patches. Is the -stable branch the one I need? One, there are two -stables, one for the 2.1 branch and anothe for 2.2. You probably fetched the 2.1-STABLE branch. why it hosed rc.conf is beyond me -- it _shouldn't_ touch anything unless you misconfigured it. Note that CVSup is going to give you CVS trees unless you ask for checkout mode, then you get source. I think you're after 2.2-STABLE, which is based on 2.2.2. The Handbook should be fairly current as to which tags you're after. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo