Re: Going from 8.0-CURRENT to RELENG_7

On 10/14/07, David Benfell <benfell_at_parts-unknown.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:49:13 -0400, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 08:10 -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
> > > On Saturday 13 October 2007 23:27:20 Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:
> > > > This is basically a warning and an advise -- as usual -- YMMV.
> > > >
> > > > I have missed HEADS-UP that RELENG_7 has been branched and found myself
> > > > running 8.0 after cvsup/buildworld/installworld cycle. Since I wanted to
> > > > stick to RELENG_7 and since branching occured 2 days ago, I've figured I
> > > > should be able to change tag in SUPFILE cvsup and rebuild.
> > > >
> For what it's worth, I did not encounter this problem.  I'm guessing that
> means that if you unwittingly upgraded to 8.0-current soon enough, this
> does not affect you.
>
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I was wondering is the best way to install a fresh FreeBSD 7 i386 to
download the snapshot from here (when it is posted)
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200710/
then csup releng_7, recompile the kernel, then portsnap fetch extract
a fresh ports tree.

Sam Fourman Jr.