5.3-STABLE ????

[Odhiambo Washington]

* Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> [20041018 10:58]: wrote:
> 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.
> 


Thank you for clarifying! I need the 5.3-RELEASE, so I am changing to
RELENG_5_3




-Wash

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