Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com> wrote:
>> Excerpt from announcement by Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu>:
>>
>>> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>>> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS.  So
>>> csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1.
>>> If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1.
>>
>> I read your message and followup messages and have questions about how to switch from csup to svn.
>>
>> System source is in /usr/src obtained by csup, apparently now being deprecated.
>>
>> Do I need to delete (rm -R /usr/src/*) before running
>>
>> svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src
>
> As a data point.. if you're talking about "stable/9", then that is
> still available via cvs/csup/cvsup as RELENG_9.
>
> If you track 9-stable, you're unaffected.

I got two private emails about this.

To be clear, yes, if you're tracking RELENG_9, you will get
"9.1-STABLE", and future 9.2 things just like before.

All that is missing is the release management branch.

> But there will never be a RELENG_10* anything in cvs.
>
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
> "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete
> themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete
themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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