From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 6 4: 2:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A364937B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 04:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A92F43E6A for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 04:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g96B26TJ067799; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:02:07 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:02:06 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Adam Weinberger Cc: Bart Smit , Subject: Re: versioning In-Reply-To: <20021006084335.GL45363@vectors.cx> Message-ID: <20021006145616.J66882-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: AW> you can likely deduce some answers from: AW> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/schedule.html AW> AW> 4.7-PRERELEASE is a tag marking what the 4.7 release will be all about. AW> then, 4.7-RC, 4.7-RC2, 4.7-RC3 (RC = release candidate) are snapshots AW> that grow closer and closer to what the RE team feels comfortable AW> calling 4.7-RELEASE. Yeah, this is true, except the following... AW> so, as you track RELENG_4, you will obtain each tag point sequentially. AW> if you cvsup your sources every day, you will know when RC2 is available AW> because "uname -a" will show 4.7-RC2. Which is not. uname of the system is determined by /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.h; -RC[n] are never been CVS tags, they are specifically set on machines which build release candidates. Summarizing: if you follow sources via cvs/cvsup/other way, you'd never got -RCn. You got, for last month, 4.6-STABLE, then 4.7-PRERELEASE, then 4.7-RC (without numbers), then, finally, 4.7-STABLE. However, you'd *never* got 4.7-RELEASE, because this specific tag will be set on a security branch named RELENG_4_7 (which is created shortly before actual release). Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message