Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:40:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Fairfield <rcf@ms.washington.edu> To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make installworld fails Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0206050836220.140687-100000@entropy.ms.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <004f01c20c4b$d2a1e120$5fec910c@daleco>
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> > > > But I'm confused about whether I want the tag string to be RELENG_4 or > > RELENG_4_5. I've read the cvsup section in the handbook, and the cvsup > > sections in FreeBSD Released and The Complete FreeBSD, but I don't > > get it. Can someone explain the difference to me??? > > > Hopefully I can, it's not _too_ hard. RELENG_4_5 was FBSD 4.5-RELEASE > in January and has since become "patched" with security fixes until it's no > longer > what it was...some people (perhaps Linux backgrounds) call it 4.5-RELEASEpx > (I think x=6 or more....) It might be called the -SECURITY branch by some, > but it's really just 4.5-RELEASE that has been patched for you by someone > else. > > RELENG_4 is -STABLE. It was the same as RELENG_4_5 at the moment > 4.5-RELEASE was built. Since that time, RELENG_4 has had not only > security fixes, but all kinds of changes and improvements that will lead to > it > being 4.6-RELEASE whenever the RELease ENGineering team is ready for > 4.6, which should be any day now...at some future point, RELENG_4 might > branch to a 4.7-RELEASE, etc. Then, at some date in 2003, -CURRENT > will step to the limelight as 5.0-RELEASE and RELENG_4 will slowly > vanish into the mists of memory...but, no worries, RELENG_5 will take > it's place as -STABLE and -CURRENT race ahead to a grand future, > albeit on seperate roads... ;-) > > Some folks are reluctant to run RELENG_4 on "production" servers > because code gets committed to the -STABLE branch that may be > removed later because a better way is found (these folks think of > -STABLE as a beta-release of the next 4.x, I guess....) A RELEASE > tag indicates that a lot more testing has gone into the build. STABLE > is rebuilt frequently (daily perhaps? I know -CURRENT is...) > > One of the later chapters in the Handbook, "the Cutting Edge," has > definitive info on this. > > > thanks again, > > rcf > > HTH, Kevin Kinsey > > Kevin: Thank you for this explaination. I think I understand now. My understanding of this now is that using RELENG_4 will get me tested patches and enhancements, as they happen, throughout the lifetime of version 4. That's what I want, so that's what I'll use. thanks again, rcf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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