buildworld

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:14:31AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-11-01 21:37, eoghan <freebsd at redry.net> wrote:
> > On 1 Nov 2005, at 21:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > >On 2005-11-01 20:26, eoghan <freebsd at redry.net> wrote:
> > >>Hello
> > >>Is there a way to tell which freebsd buildworld will make?
> > >
> > >You can guess by looking at:
> > >
> > >    /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
> > >
> > >This will give the version of the kernel, which may not be that useful
> > >for branches that change often, like CURRENT.  It's a good  
> > >indication of
> > >what branch you're building though.
> > >
> > >The value of __FreeBSD_version from /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h is also a
> > >useful number to have.
> > 
> > Thank you Giorgos
> > Let me re-phrase the other part of my question... Given the example
> > supfile:
> > 
> > *default tag=.
> > *default host=cvsup99.FreeBSD.org
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default base=/var/db
> > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> > 
> > src-all
> > 
> > This will update to freeBSD-CURRENT
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> > How would I modify this supfile to update to 5.4-RELEASE?
> 
> By using a proper tag= value.  For the 5.4-RELEASE version of the
> sources, this would be:
> 
>         tag=RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE
> 
> The exact process that leads to the creation of a release branch and the
> tag that marks the sources of the official release build is described in
> detail at:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.html

You may like to use tag=RELENG_5_4 instead and get some patches to.
-- 
Alex

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