Re: DragonFly 2.2.1 released!

[Colin Adams <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still get the error message (on the git branch command, this time):

fatal: Not a valid oblect name: 'DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2'

2009/5/1 Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>:
>
> :But git checkout v2.2.1 was what i actually needed-:)
> :
> :So what I did was the following (in case whoever maintains the wiki
> :page is interested):
>
>    2.2.1 will not track additional changes made to the 2.2.x branch
>    though.
>
>    Maybe what is missing here is a local branch to track the
>    remote branch.
>
>    Try this:
>
>    git branch origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2 DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2
>    git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2
>
> :What I'm not clear about is if I need to do anything with pkgsrc. My
> :guess is that applications shouldn't care what the X is in kernel
> :version 2.2.X.
>
>    Everything in the 2.2.x series uses the same package set.
>
>    The main development branch (2.3.x) bumped the major version on libc
>    which means all major packages would need to be recompiled, so I
>    recommend sticking with the 2.2.x series for now.
>
>                                        -Matt
>