Re: 5.4 Release and /usr/src/UPDATING

From: Kris Kennaway (kkenn_at_xor.obsecurity.org)
Date: 05/10/05 

Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:09:14 -0700

On 2005-05-10, Joel Hatton <uqjhatto@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>> On 2005-05-10, Joel Hatton <uqjhatto@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've been tracking RELENG_5 for some time now. I'm curious as to
>>>why /usr/src/UPDATING hasn't been updated since the release, even
>>>though /usr/src/release/Makefile has been.
>>
>>
>> Is there something you think should have been added there?
>
> Well, I guess I expected to see a marker something like '5.4 RELEASE',
> like the one I found further down in the same file for 5.3 RELEASE.
> Without this kind of confirmation I wasn't sure whether my sup mirror
> was up-to-date and I had to repeat the process using the main FreeBSD
> site just to be sure - particularly since the handbook stresses that you
> read UPDATING before continuing with the make buildworld process.....

Perhaps it was overlooked, try asking on the mailing list.

Kris

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