Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

John Nielsen lists at jnielsen.net
Tue May 9 19:57:18 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:48, Miguel wrote:
> Nikolas Britton wrote:
> > On 5/9/06, John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net> wrote:
> >> 2) Create a supfile appropriate for your situation (and location).
> >> Here is
> >> mine:
> >>
> >> *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org
> >> *default base=/var/db
> >> *default prefix=/usr
> >> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
> >> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> >> *default compress
> >> src-all
> >
> > If he cvsups using that release tag he will get 6-STABLE, not
> > 6.1-RELEASE.
>
> is that info (tags meaning) available somewhere in the handbook?, im
> running 6.1-RC1 and want to upgrade to 6.1-RELEASE, or better to
> 6.1-STABLE, what tag should i use?
> RELENG???

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

RELENG_6_1 == tag for FreeBSD 6.1 security branch
RELENG_6 == tag for FreeBSD 6-STABLE development branch.

If you want 6.1-RELEASE use the first one.  If you want 6.1-STABLE use the 
second one.

JN


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