Which version and other updating questions

[K Anderson]

----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton at gmail.com>
>To: "K Anderson" <freebsduser at comcast.net>
>Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 5:36 PM
>Subject: Re: Which version and other updating questions
>

>On 8/29/05, K Anderson <freebsduser at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I recently did a cvsup and it fetched all sorts of things so I'm a bit
>> concerned about what version make buildworld would create. How come the
>> Makefile under src/ doesn't have a version of the build about to be 
>> created
>> (The only version information is for the Makefile itself 1.323 but that's
>> not very helpful)? If it's there could somebody put it someplace that 
>> makes
>> it easy to find.
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/Makefile That Makefile is for 
>HEAD
>
Hey great stuff, but it would still be nice to see a build version in the 
Make file like the port maintainers do.
>>
>> And UPDATING has  NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 7.x IS SLOW:.... 
>> But
>> that's not helpful because it just tells me that I could inadvertently 
>> fetch
>> 7.x stuff (which I probably just did since I have tag=.).
>
>It tells you that you *did* fetch 7.x stuff
>
Ugh, not a big deal though. I'll take your recommendations that you had 
below and correct the situation. Thanks again.
>>
>> uname -a reported 6.0-CURRENT (Gack current, doh *feint*).
>>
>> Here's what my cvsupme5 file looks like ---
>> *default host=cvsup7.FreeBSD.org
>> *default base=/usr
>> *default prefix=/usr
>> *default release=cvs tag=.
>> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>>
>> src-all
>> ports-all
>>
>>
>> Let me guess, since I'm using tag=. (Otherwise known as HEAD) it's going 
>> to
>> get what ever is bleeding edge?
>
>Yes.
>
>>
>> Should I change that to tag=RELENG_6 (In hopes that cvsup doesn't grab
>> bleeding edge stuff)?
>
>Yes and remove "ports-all", one supfile for ports and one supfile for
>system, here is my systems supfile:
>*default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org
>*default base=/var/db
>*default prefix=/usr
>*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
>*default delete use-rel-suffix
>*default compress
>src-all
>
>And here is my ports supfile:
>*default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org
>*default base=/var/db
>*default prefix=/usr
>*default release=cvs tag=.
>*default delete use-rel-suffix
>*default compress
>ports-all
>
>The Ports system has no cvs branches, it is always HEAD.
>
>You can also check here for FreeBSD branch tags:
>http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html

Another good URL. Ugh, were did you learn all these little things from?