Release engineering confusion

Steve Bertrand iaccounts at ibctech.ca
Wed Nov 16 23:40:53 GMT 2005


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.D. Bronson [mailto:jbronson at wixb.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:33 PM
> To: Steve Bertrand
> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions'
> Subject: Re: Release engineering confusion
> 
> At 05:16 PM 11/16/2005, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm a little confused about which tags to use in my supfiles 
> for cvsup.
> >
> >I've installed 6.0-RELEASE, and really want to stay with STABLE. 
> >AFAICT, in my supfile, I should have the following to do so:
> >
> >*default tag=RELENG_6_0
> >
> >...is that correct? I used this, and after a buildworld I 
> got an error.
> >I'm not concerned about that right now though. Also, is RELENG_6 
> >considered to be the most current, up-to-date release of the 
> 6.0 track, 
> >as opposed to STABLE?
> >
> >Steve
> 
> 
> according to the example in /usr/share/examples/cvsup:
> # The following line is for 6-stable.  If you want 5-stable, 
> 4-stable, # 3-stable, or 2.2-stable, change to "RELENG_5", 
> "RELENG_4", "RELENG_3", # or "RELENG_2_2" respectively.
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> 
> 
> So I used this in my cvsup-file
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
> 
> and buildworld fails on libcurses......

Whoops, sorry!

I went ahead of myself and said 'me too', whereas I should of said, I
get fails on buildworld as well, but it wasn't there.

Steve



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