Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable

From: Xavier de Labouret (zezaz_at_chez.com)
Date: 05/25/03

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    Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 22:48:07 +0200
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

    Hi,

    I would like to follow 4-stable on my FreeBSD box, and i can't fetch
    binaries from /stand/sysinstall. Can anyone help me?

    Here is how i did:

    1) I installed 4.8-RELEASE from CD,
    2) I used cvsup to upgrade. For this i used the stable-supfile as shown
    in the Handbook.

    => My OS version as shown by 'uname -a' and '/stand/sysinstall' is
    "4.8-STABLE".

    It looks like "4.8-STABLE" is slightly different from "4-STABLE": my
    problem is, i can't install up-to-date packaged binaries with this release.
    (Precision: I know i could recompile everything manually from ports,
    but, as i like many gory like mozilla, gnome, openoffice... it would
    take many days dedicated to recompilation on my single PC.)

    So, i tried to upgrade from within '/stand/sysinstall' by FTP.

    - First, it complained that it can't find the "4.8-STABLE" distribution
    on my FTP source (which can be any FreeBSD server or mirror)
    - So, i tried to force the Release Version in the Options menu to
    4-STABLE. No more luck, same error message...
    - As the error message suggested me to put "any" in the Release Version
    in the Options, i tried to. The error message got different then
    ("unable to get packages/INDEX from selected media"). But it kept
    unsuccessful.

    I am a little puzzled, because i feel like i followed the instructions,
    but it does not work as expected. I must have missed something. But what?

    Thank you in advance for showing me what i did wrong!

    Xavier de Labouret
    PS: thank you for CC:ing me also, as i am not a subscriber to
    freebsd-stable@freebsd.org.

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