standard-supfile = stable-supfile with 5.3 ?
Rob
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Tue Nov 9 02:39:36 PST 2004
Björn König wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>
>
>>[...]
>>both have
>>
>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
>>
>>although the first one claims to download CURRENT.
>>
>>And, eh, why is the filename "standard-supfile" and
>>why not the more obvious "current-supfile" ?
>
>
> It only claims, but it doesn't bring you -CURRENT.
> That's the reason why it should not be renamed.
> The standard-supfile contains the standard tag of your release
> to keep it up to date. Maybe someone will change this sentence
> in standard-supfile to 'This file contains all of the "CVSup
> collections" that make up the FreeBSD-stable source tree.' soon.
If so, then why do we have a standard-supfile and a stable-supfile doing the
same thing? If both bring you -STABLE, one of the two seems to be redundant
to me and having two sup files doing the same only causes confusion.
R.
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