Unable to fetch source files using FTP for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2

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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:50:14 -0400
David Gurvich <david.gurvich at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> You just need to change the release name to 7.0-RELEASE.  Use
> sysinstall and change it in Options or a source supfile with that
> release name.  

Does that actually work? I'd always assumed that that would give you
the release source, which would mean reverting two security updates.

The normal way to get the source is to run csup, in this case using
RELENG_7_0. The process is covered in the handbook.