Re: CVSup: upgrade to 5-current

From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013_at_student.uu.se>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:41:24 +0100
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:18:09AM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote:
> > On 02/19/05 14:41, Remington wrote:
> > >I am attempting to upgrade from 5.3-RELEASE to 5.4-CURRENT. The line
> > >*default release=cvs tag=. seems to work but newvers.sh claims it to be
> > >6.0. What is the correct *default entry?
> > 
> > There is no 5.4-CURRENT.  The tag is correct to get you -CURRENT, but in 
> > this case you are actually getting 6.0-CURRENT.
> > 
> > If you want to stick with the 5.x branch, use tag=RELENG_5.  That will 
> > get you 5.3-STABLE, the branch that will lead to 5.4-RELEASE.
> 
> I did that last night and ended up with 5.4-prerelease or something
> similar.

Yes, they changed the name displayed by system from 5.3-STABLE to
5.4-PRERELEASE to indicate that we are nearing the release of 5.4
After 5.4-RELEASE is out the name will change to 5.4-STABLE

5.3-STABLE and 5.4-PRELEASE mean essentially the same thing, namely the
5-STABLE branch from some point in time after 5.3 was released but
before 5.4 was released.

See also the FAQ at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE


>  If one wants 5.3-stable, they need to use this tag:
> 
> tag=RELENG_5_3

No, that will get you 5.3-RELEASE + critical bugfixes (especially
security fixes) which is not the same thing as 5.3-STABLE

If you want to follow the 5-STABLE development branch (which for a
period of time was named 5.3-STABLE) you want
tag=RELENG_5

> 
> At least that is what I found in my reading last night and am starting
> all over so I can get to 5.3-stable.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013_at_student.uu.se
Received on Thu Feb 24 2005 - 13:41:28 UTC

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