Subject: Re: newest stable version (was Re: CVS getting files then deleting them)
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Kaegi <kgc@zhwin.ch>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/01/2003 14:39:21
On 2003.07.01 05:55, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
>
> > What I (and probably many others) want is:
> >
> > - Install the latest stable Release (1.6.1 atm)
> > - Then track all fixes until 1.7 arrives (track netbsd-1-6 branch)
> >
> > If I understand correctly, this will lead my system from 1.6.1+patches
> > to 1.6.2, 1.6.3, as long as the 1-6 branch evolves.
> > So I DON'T have to change the cvs command to track 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.n
> > but tracking 1-6 is ok until I upgrade to 1.7 someday.
> >
> > It'd be great if somebody could either confirm this or tell me
> > how this should be done.
>
> Yes, that's correct (modulo s/1.7/2.0). Recall the original question
> was about "pkgsrc", and as M Bouyer pointed out, we've decided to
> diverge from that plan in pkgsrc, so in pkgsrc, the latest branch, on
> which releng is actively processing pull-up's, is netbsd-1-6-1, which
> has never been tagged.
>
OK, thank you very much
Chris
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