I went to 8.0 current accidently :(

[Josh Paetzel]

On Friday 16 November 2007 02:13:40 pm Garrett Cooper wrote:
> cuongvt wrote:
> > After got below news from OSnews.com yesterday (I was late),
> > I inserted RELENG_7 to my /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
> > as below:
> >
> > *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org
> > *default base=/var/db
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7
> > *default delete use-rel-suffix
> > *default compress
> > src-all
> > Then I exec:
> > cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup.jp.freebsd.org
> > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
> >
> > Then I -j10 buildworld, build kernel, install kernel, then as single
> > mode I installworld.
> > After that, when I uname -a, it output is:
> > FreeBSD hanhnhu.local 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Fri
> > Nov 16 19:48:47 ICT 2007
> > Where I was wrong?
> > Tnx in advanced.
> > ================================
> >
> >
> > "The 7.0-BETA2 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD
> > mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup use
> > RELENG_7 as the branch tag. Instructions on using FreeBSD Update to
> > perform a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.0-BETA2 will be provided
> > via the
> > freebsd-stable list when available."
>
> Wasn't tag "releng_7", not "RELENG_7"?? CVS is CaSe SeNsItIvE, ya know?
> -Garrett

No, it's definitely RELENG_7...and even if you used the wrong case all you'd 
do is delete everything in /usr/src

Really the only way to end up with 8.0-CURRENT is to build from HEAD, which 
means somehow /usr/src got populated, whether with a supfile with . in it or 
what is impossible to say.

Regardless, there's no real supported downgrade procedure.  It's probably 
possible, but you are in wizard territory.


-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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