On 18/11/2011 18:21, George Kontostanos wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Luchesar V. ILIEV > <luchesar.iliev_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> On 18/11/2011 12:53, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>>> If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms to access the source >>>> tree the branch tag to use is now "RELENG_9_0", if you use "." (head) >>>> you will get 10-CURRENT. If you would like to access the source tree >>>> via SVN it is "svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.0/". We still have >>>> the nit that the creation of a new SVN branch winds up causing what >>>> looks like a check-in of the entire tree in CVS (a side-effect of the >>>> svn2cvs exporter) so "mergemaster -F" is your friend if you are using >>>> csup/cvsup. >>> >>> About a couple days before seeing this message, or the message on the FreeBSD web site, but after seeing RC2 on the ftp.freebsd.org server, >>> I already ran csup with >>> >>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_9 >>> >>> Am I screwed, am I OK, or do I simply have to rerun csup with RELENG_9_0 instead of RELENG_9 ? >> >> RELENG_9 (cvs) = stable/9 (svn) = 9.N-STABLE (newvers.sh, `uname -r`) >> RELENG_9_0 (cvs) = releng/9.0 (svn) = 9.0-RELEASE (newvers.sh, uname) >> >> In short, if you want to use the 9.0-RELEASE (when it finally gets >> ready), then you need to switch to RELENG_9_0. If you prefer using >> -STABLE for your systems, then you're OK with RELENG_9. >> >> In case you don't know or are not quite sure about the differences >> between -RELEASE and -STABLE, I'd recommend switching to RELENG_9_0. >> >>> Again, I can't find that file (needle in the haystack) in /usr/src tree that shows version number such as RC2. >> >> This has already been answered, but just a quick note. If you've >> recently updated your sources using the RELENG_9 tag, you'll most likely >> see the version in newvers.sh as: >> >> REVISION="9.0" >> BRANCH="PRERELEASE" >> >> If you switch to RELENG_9_0 and update your sources again, you should >> see the familiar: >> >> REVISION="9.0" >> BRANCH="RC2" >> >> HTH, >> Luchesar >> >> -- >> i.dea.is/luchesar >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >> > > Correct me if I am wrong but up until 9.0 is released there isn't any > practical difference between RELENG_9 & RELENG_9_0 Yes, but it's never a nice feeling to realize you've taken the wrong train only when you see it going not quite your way, isn't it? ;) Cheers, LuchesarReceived on Fri Nov 18 2011 - 16:38:40 UTC
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