Aw: AW: Re: Development branch

[Zachary Crownover]

You can go from release to master, but you can't go back to release if you
do.
On 12 Jun 2015 17:38, <nans_nans1 at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Ok. Thank you all.
> Last question: I run 4.0.4. Is it possible to upgrade to master branch or
> have i to stay in release branch?
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> Matthias Sund <matthias_play at gmx.net> schrieb am Do, 11.6.2015:
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>  Betreff: Aw: AW: Re: Development branch
>  An: nans_nans1 at yahoo.de
>  CC: users at dragonflybsd.org
>  Datum: Donnerstag, 11. Juni, 2015 22:51 Uhr
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>  You may also use the source repo. You should be able to
>  check out tagged revision v4.0.5 before you start the
>  build:
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>  'git checkout v4.0.5'.
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>  In case you want  to follow a release branch, let us
>  say 4.0, you can check this revision out with:
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>  'git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_4_0' and update
>  your local copy as usual with
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>  'git pull'.
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>  The master branch really is the devoted to DragonFly
>  development and that is you get every developer commit
>  whereas the release branches only contain revisions of
>  DragonFly releases.
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>  Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2015 um 17:40
>  Uhr
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>  Von: nans_nans1 <nans_nans1 at yahoo.de>
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>  An: "Matthias Sund"
>  <matthias_play at gmx.net>, users at dragonflybsd.org
>
>  Betreff: Aw: AW: Re: Development branch
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>  Ok. But sorry for my further question: And how can i
>  update to 4.0.5 if i running 4.0.4?
>
>  What is here difference?
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>  Von
>  Samsung Mobile gesendet
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>  -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
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>  Von: Matthias Sund <matthias_play at gmx.net>
>
>  Datum: 11.06.2015 14:37 (GMT+01:00)
>
>  An: nans_nans1 at yahoo.de
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>  Betreff: Aw: AW: Re: Development branch
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>  Hi,
>
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>
>  you need to check out the master branch from DragonFly
>  source repo:
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>  cd /usr; make src-create && make
>  src-checkout
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>  You should have checked out master branch after that.
>  You might check that with:
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>
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>  cd /usr/src; git branch
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>  which should write "* master" to the
>  terminal.
>
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>
>  To actually upgrade the system, you need to issue the
>  following steps with optional steps in paranthesis:
>
>
>
>  1. cd /usr/src
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>  2. (git pull) updates the sources to the latest devel
>  version
>
>  3. make buildworld && make buildkernel
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>  4. make installkernel && make installworld
>  && make upgrade
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>  5. reboot
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>  In step 3, you may use "make -j[number of
>  available CPU cores] ..." to speed up the build
>  processes.
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>
>
>  Regards
>
>  Matthias
>
>
>  Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2015 um 13:49
>  Uhr
>
>  Von: nans_nans1 <nans_nans1 at yahoo.de>
>
>  An: "John Marino"
>  <dragonflybsd at marino.st>, users at dragonflybsd.org
>
>  Betreff: AW: Re: Development branch
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>  Thank you. But, please, give me instructions what i
>  have to do in detail.
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>  Von
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>  -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
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>  Von: John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st>
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>  Datum: 11.06.2015 13:25 (GMT+01:00)
>
>  An: nans_nans1 at yahoo.de,users at dragonflybsd.org
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>  Betreff: Re: Development branch
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>  On 6/11/2015 13:18, nans_nans1 at yahoo.de wrote:
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>  > Hi
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>  > is it possible to stay in development branch for every
>  update forever?
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>  > If yes, how can i do this?
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>  Build from source and have git set to the "master"
>  branch.  By
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>  definition, it is always development.  It got changed to
>  version 4.3
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>  (from 4.1) this morning.
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