FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE

[Johan Hendriks]

>Onderwerp: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE

>Hi folks,
>y'day I csuped the src and built installed the kernel from RELENG_7
>I was expecting FreeBSD-BETA2 in output of `uname -a`
>it is still -PRERELEASE, is it by decision or I have to change something ?

>I greped /usr/src for PRERELEASE but cud not locate it. I guess release
>engineering team does that. comments ?

>Aston

If you download the cd BETA2 then you see BETA2
But if you going to csup the latest source from the RELENG_7 branch it will be named PRERELEASE again.
See Beta as just a Timestamp name for the PRERELEASE branch.

Regards,
Johan Hendriks 

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