Add a note about out of date dragonfly installs.

diff --git a/docs/howtos/HowToPkgsrc.mdwn b/docs/howtos/HowToPkgsrc.mdwn
index 74b32ca..e9fcf39 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/howtos/HowToPkgsrc.mdwn
+++ b/docs/howtos/HowToPkgsrc.mdwn
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ The basic pkgsrc tools are provided with every DragonFly system as part of insta
 
 Edit GITHOST in /usr/Makefile or set it as an environment variable to select a different download location, if desired. See mirrors page for available mirrors.
 
-This downloads the latest stable version of the pkgsrc tree. As root:
+This downloads the stable version of the pkgsrc tree. As root:
 
     # cd /usr
     # make pkgsrc-create
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ to fetch the intial pkgsrc repository from the net, or
 
 to update.
 
+**Note**: If your DragonFly install is not up to date, you might have ended up with an old release of the pkgsrc tree.
+
+    # cd /usr/pkgsrc
+    # git branch
+
+will show what release you are on. See Tracking the stable branch for more information.
+
 ### Tracking the stable branch
 
 There are quarterly releases of pkgsrc that are specifically designed for stability.  You should in general follow these, rather than the bleeding edge pkgsrc. When a new branch is out you need to set up a local branch tracking that one. 'make pkgsrc-update' will not do this for you.
@@ -96,7 +103,7 @@ To create a local branch, tracking the remote quarterly release:
     # cd /usr/pkgsrc 
     # git branch pkgsrc-2010Q4 origin/pkgsrc-2010Q4
 
-Branch naming format is 'pkgsrc-YYYYQX', where YYYY is the year and QX is quarters 1-4 of the year.  Check [pkgsrc.org](http://www.pkgsrc.org/) to see the name of the most recently released branch.
+Branch naming format is 'pkgsrc-YYYYQX', where YYYY is the year and QX is quarters 1-4 of the year.  Check [pkgsrc.org](http://www.pkgsrc.org/) to see the name of the latest stable branch.
 
 After adding a new branch, it can be downloaded with: