Which version and other updating questions

[Nikolas Britton]

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

> 
> 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

> 
> 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