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#! rnews 2301 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Confused about releases and ports Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 03:53:22 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 37 Message-ID: <33AA6122.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> References: <33a847d0.1747214@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: John Kelly <mouth@ibm.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43206 [ Also mailed ] John Kelly wrote: > I installed 2.2.1 from CD, then CVSuped RELENG_2_2 and recompiled my > kernel. It now boots up as "2.2-STABLE" -- does that mean I have the > latest kernel in the 2.2 family? Yes. > And when I CVSuped ports, I tried the same RELENG_2_2 tag and it > deleted all my ports and then stopped, so I concluded that was not a > valid release tag, and tried it again with =. and that worked but now > I'm not sure what level of ports I have. An understandable mistake - we don't have the ports tree branched the way the src tree is. There's only just the "HEAD" tag for ports, what we call -current in the src tree. To put it another way, we currently support 3 branches for the src collection: RELENG_2_1_0 (the misnamed 2.1-stable tag), RELENG_2_2 (the better-named 2.2-stable tag) and HEAD (not an actual tag, but symbolic for "main line" in CVS). We support only one branch for the ports collection: HEAD. That is why when you tried to grab ports at RELENG_2_2, it deleted the tree. There ain't no such animal. ;-) > When I look at the FreeBSD FTP directory on ftp.cdrom.com I see many > different versions of ports but since my first try at CVSuping the Those are the hand-built snapshots built at the same time as the srcs they correspond to, just like the packages. Consider them frozen snapshots from the main line, not actual branches in their own right. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.