Updating newly installed FreeBSD-5.2.1

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 07/04/04 01:26 PM, Stacey Roberts sat at the `puter and typed:
> Hello,
>      Forgive the simple question here, please.
> 
> I've just installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 from BSDMall's CD-Set, and I wanted to do what I'd usually do with a new installation of FreeBSD-4.x, which is to update it to the latest "stable" of that version. Now I know that there is no "Stable" version of 5.x as yet, but I wondered what it is that the supfiles located at /usr/share/examples/cvsup should be for what I want to do.
> 
> The standard-supfile that is currently on my 5.2.1 install has :
> 
> *default release=cvs tag=.
> 
> Isn't that going to get me CURRENT?
> 
> I had a look for what I would have thought should be branch information for RELENG_5_2_1, but couldn't actually find anything. What should I use?

I believe the tag you're looking for is RELENG_5_2, but you might want
to check here first:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

HTH
Lou
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