CVSup: upgrade to 5-current

[Andy Firman]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:15:08AM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:06:17AM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
> > Remington wrote:
> > >I am attempting to upgrade from 5.3-RELEASE to 5.4-CURRENT. The line
> > >*default release=cvs tag=. seems to work but newvers.sh claims it to be
> > >6.0. What is the correct *default entry?
> > >
> > 
> > 5.x isn't current 6.0 is, and 5.4 doesn't exist.
> > 
> > You want tag=RELENG_5
> 
> Correct.
> 
> I did that last night and ended up with 5.4-prerelease or something
> like that and had to start all over because I want 5.3-stable.
> Just FYI for other beginners out there that want 5.3 stable only, 
> you need to use this from now on:
> 
> tag=RELENG_5_3

I am WRONG and need to correct this.  Erik Trulsson on the current
list politely told me this:

Yes, they changed the name displayed by system from 5.3-STABLE to
5.4-PRERELEASE to indicate that we are nearing the release of 5.4
After 5.4-RELEASE is out the name will change to 5.4-STABLE

5.3-STABLE and 5.4-PRELEASE mean essentially the same thing, namely the
5-STABLE branch from some point in time after 5.3 was released but
before 5.4 was released.

See also the FAQ at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE


>  If one wants 5.3-stable, they need to use this tag:
>
> tag=RELENG_5_3

No, that will get you 5.3-RELEASE + critical bugfixes (especially
security fixes) which is not the same thing as 5.3-STABLE

If you want to follow the 5-STABLE development branch (which for a
period of time was named 5.3-STABLE) you want
tag=RELENG_5