upgrading 8.0 to 8.1, which tag to use?

Daniel Bye freebsd-questions at slightlystrange.org
Mon May 24 16:14:28 UTC 2010


On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:11:06PM -0400, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD box running 8.0-RELEASE, that I would like to upgrade to 8.1
> 
> I am aware that 8.1 is not released yet, when 8.1-RELEASE is cut, I
> will rebuild at that point.
> 
> My question is about which CVS tag to use. Should I use RELENG_8, or
> is there a RELENG_8_1 that I can use?

RELENG_8 will get you STABLE, or, at the moment, 8.1-PRERELEASE. When
8.1-RELEASE is finished, you'll be able to get it with RELENG_8_1. I
don't think the tag exists just yet, though.

Dan

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