5.3-STABLE ????

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Mon Oct 18 00:56:49 PDT 2004


On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:44:31AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 
> I installed 5.3Beta7 on a box I have here. I have UPDATED the box
> twice now using cvsup, and using:
> 
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
> 
> 
> Now, the output of `uname -a` says the box is:
> 
> 
> FreeBSD sqlserve.wananchi.com 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Mon Oct 18 08:30:11 EAT 2004 \
> wash at sqlserve.wananchi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SQLSRV  i386
> 
> 
> 
> I am not sure how correct this is. Did I screw up with the RELENG tag?

No -- that's expected.  Once the RELENG_5_3 branch was created, the
RELENG_5 branch would be relabeld as -STABLE.  Note that these are
just technical changes to the CVS repository and that all they do is
presage the actual release/launch of those OS versions.  ie. You might
be seeing 5.3-STABLE in your uname(1) output, but it isn't official
until the project announces it.

If your eventual aim is to install 5.3-RELEASE, this would be a good
time to change your supfile to track RELENG_5_3.  Again -- that's just
producing release candidates at the moment: the release isn't official
until it's announced.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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