No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread Dave Hayes
Forgive my naivete as I am just getting started working with DragonFly. Perusing the CVS web at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src I only find the "DragonFly_Preview" tag. Checking the obvious /usr/src/sys/conf I find a subvers-DEVELOPMENT_1_3 file that lists some versions: I

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Dave Hayes wrote: I only find the "DragonFly_Preview" tag. Checking the obvious /usr/src/sys/conf I find a subvers-DEVELOPMENT_1_3 file that lists some versions: I know the difference between 4 and 5 is major. I don't understand what you try to say here. So a couple of issues for the assemble

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread walt
Dave Hayes wrote: Perusing the CVS web at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src I only find the "DragonFly_Preview" tag... That's very strange. I see a total of 13 entries in the 'tags' dropdown menu, including Dragonfly_Preview, of course. Do you mean (literally) that you s

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread Dave Hayes
[ This will teach me to be clearer. :) ] Simon Schubert writes: > Dave Hayes wrote: >> I only find the "DragonFly_Preview" tag. Checking the obvious >> /usr/src/sys/conf I find a subvers-DEVELOPMENT_1_3 file that lists >> some versions: I know the difference between 4 and 5 is major. > I don't un

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread walt
Dave Hayes wrote: Walt writes: That's very strange. I see a total of 13 entries in the 'tags' dropdown menu, including Dragonfly_Preview, of course. ...What I meant was that I found no tags of the form "DragonFly_Preview_". Hence when I go to cvsup the sources, I can't get exactly those sou

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sun, September 4, 2005 6:15 pm, Dave Hayes said: >>> If someone properly summarizes the state of affairs of the tags, >>> I'll take 5 minutes and put it in the documentation (again presuming >>> you are using some form of docbook). The handbook is in docbook; if you are willing to submit patch

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread Dave Hayes
wa1ter writes: > I follow HEAD, I just supped to Dragonfly_Preview. What's the difference? # uname -sv DragonFly DragonFly 1.3.5-PREVIEW #0: Sun Sep 4 15:35:14 PDT 2005 > I find HEAD to be very stable at the moment. I dunno what your > plans are for DragonFly, but I can say that HEAD may be

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread walt
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Dave Hayes wrote: > Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:30:30 -0700 > From: Dave Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: dragonfly.users > Subject: Re: No version tags on Preview? > > wa1ter writes: > > I follow HEAD, > > I just supped to Dragonfl

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
Preview is supposed to be a 'reasonable stable' version of HEAD, but sometimes it can get pretty far behind (like it was until we synced it just recently). Under normal conditions will ought to sync Preview at least once a month and even more often. Preview's main purpose is t

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-04 Thread Dave Hayes
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Preview's main purpose is to support those users who want a fairly > recent HEAD, but do not want to deal with, for example, the EHCI work > that caused my test box to stop booting for a few days :-). So I can quote you in the documentation

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-05 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Dave Hayes wrote: So...I'm trying something different here (out of necessity). I'm going to run the most stable bleeding edge code I can, regardless of how oxymoronic that is, and see how that works. I'm thinking the aggregate time spent upgrading every month is less than the large chunks of frus

Re: No version tags on Preview?

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Matthew Dillon wrote: :> but the reality is that we are no less careful then, say, :> the FreeBSD folks are when they commit something to their HEAD. So :> anyone who felt comfortable staying up with HEAD in FreeBSDland :> should feel the same comfort level staying up with HEAD