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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
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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.