Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable

[Xavier de Labouret]

Hi,

I would like to follow 4-stable on my FreeBSD box, and i can't fetch 
binaries from /stand/sysinstall. Can anyone help me?

Here is how i did:

1) I installed 4.8-RELEASE from CD,
2) I  used cvsup to upgrade. For this i used the stable-supfile as shown 
in the Handbook.

=> My OS version as shown by 'uname -a' and '/stand/sysinstall' is 
"4.8-STABLE".

It looks like "4.8-STABLE" is slightly different from "4-STABLE": my 
problem is, i can't install up-to-date packaged binaries with this release.
(Precision: I know i could recompile everything manually from ports, 
but, as i like many gory like mozilla, gnome, openoffice... it would 
take many days dedicated to recompilation on my single PC.)

So,  i tried to upgrade from within '/stand/sysinstall' by FTP.

-  First, it complained that it can't find the "4.8-STABLE" distribution 
on my FTP source (which can be any FreeBSD server or mirror)
- So, i tried to force the Release Version in the Options menu to 
4-STABLE. No more luck, same error message...
- As the error message suggested me to put "any" in the Release Version 
in the Options, i tried to. The error message got different then 
("unable to get packages/INDEX from selected media"). But it kept 
unsuccessful.

I am a little puzzled, because i feel like i followed the instructions, 
but it does not work as expected. I must have missed something. But what?

Thank you in advance for showing me what i did wrong!

Xavier de Labouret
PS: thank you for CC:ing me also, as i am not a subscriber to 
freebsd-stable at freebsd.org.