I had 6.2 stable all setup & had gnome 2.18 all humming along 100% java & eclipse, tomcat, bah bah bah! updated src & rebuilt only to find 6.2 is gone & 6.3 prerelease! ( I think there should be a button we need to push to get software we DONT want! j/k) with my setup as it is, can i back date my cvsup file & rebuild back to 6.2 stable not losing any settings or software ?
On Friday 09 November 2007, Jon Holstrom wrote:> I had 6.2 stable all setup & > had gnome 2.18 all humming along 100% > java & eclipse, tomcat, bah bah bah! > > updated src & rebuilt only to > find 6.2 is gone & 6.3 prerelease! > > ( I think there should be a button > we need to push to get > software we DONT want! j/k) > > with my setup as it is, can > i back date my cvsup file & > rebuild back to 6.2 stable not > losing any settings or software ?RELENG_6 (aka 6.2 stable) is the *development* branch for any FreeBSD 6.x releases. As we are closing in on 6.3 this branch obviously serves as the base for 6.3 pre-releases. You have a choice to either use the 6.2 security fix branch (RELENG_6_2) or the "stable" branch (RELENG_6) - which really is not recommended for production systems. If you really want to go back (not sure why you would want to, though) you should be able to cvsup RELENG_6_2 and do a src upgrade (or downgrade in this case). This, however, might leave you with some leftover files that were added to RELENG_6. -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20071109/d91b2498/attachment.pgp
Jon Holstrom wrote:> I had 6.2 stable all setup & > had gnome 2.18 all humming along 100% > java & eclipse, tomcat, bah bah bah! > > updated src & rebuilt only to > find 6.2 is gone & 6.3 prerelease! > > ( I think there should be a button > we need to push to get > software we DONT want! j/k)I would like a button I could push that would de-confuse users who write emails in blank verse :) Kris P.S. The difference between "6.2-stable" and "6.3-prerelease" is essentially just a name change. Please read the handbook for extensive discussion on how the FreeBSD release process works.
On Nov 9, 2007 1:20 PM, Jon Holstrom <jon@web-tricks.net> wrote:> I had 6.2 stable all setup & > had gnome 2.18 all humming along 100% > java & eclipse, tomcat, bah bah bah! > > updated src & rebuilt only to > find 6.2 is gone & 6.3 prerelease! > > ( I think there should be a button > we need to push to get > software we DONT want! j/k) > > with my setup as it is, can > i back date my cvsup file & > rebuild back to 6.2 stable not > losing any settings or software ? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html You'd want to use RELENG_6_2 instead of RELENG_6 in your cvsup file
Jon Holstrom wrote:> I had 6.2 stable all setup & > had gnome 2.18 all humming along 100% > java & eclipse, tomcat, bah bah bah! > > updated src & rebuilt only to > find 6.2 is gone & 6.3 prerelease! > > ( I think there should be a button > we need to push to get > software we DONT want! j/k) > > with my setup as it is, can > i back date my cvsup file & > rebuild back to 6.2 stable not > losing any settings or software ?If you go back to 6.2-STABLE, you'll be left with a system that can never be updated again since 6.2-STABLE no longer exists. Any time you updated it, the name would change again which you seem to have a problem with. If you keep following RELENG_6, you'll end up running 6.3-STABLE after the release. Or, you could choose to run 6.2-RELEASE (RELENG_6_2) or 6.3-RELEASE (RELENG_6_3) after it's released. For right now, there's really no difference between 6.2-STABLE and 6.3-PRERELEASE. If you do nothing, you'll eventually be running 6.3-STABLE. -- Skip
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Friday, November 09, 2007 10:20:47 -0800 Jon Holstrom <jon@web-tricks.net> wrote:> I had 6.2 stable all setup & > had gnome 2.18 all humming along 100% > java & eclipse, tomcat, bah bah bah! > > updated src & rebuilt only to > find 6.2 is gone & 6.3 prerelease!What is wrong with 6.3-PRERELEASE? I had 6-STABLE all setup & had kde 3.5.x hum0%, java, azureus, bah bah bah! ... upgraded to 6.3-PRERELEASE and still have 6-STABLE all setup & had kde 3.5.x hum0%, java, azureus, bah bah bah! ... nothing has changed from what can tell, just newer kernel *shrug* - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHNh7W4QvfyHIvDvMRAqnuAJ9RN4JsubP808xI7bwZz3iKWl2voQCgucu/ 7YKW6UTEDp1zpGIBwMpLvSA=suC5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----