Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:42:38 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh Message-ID: <200508221742.39896.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <430A4223.6080009@freebsd.org> References: <200508190356.j7J3uj5D095435@repoman.freebsd.org> <200508221615.37569.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <430A4223.6080009@freebsd.org>
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On Monday 22 August 2005 05:22 pm, Colin Percival wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Monday 22 August 2005 03:18 pm, Colin Percival wrote: > >>I don't require that people install a fixed set of distributions. In > >> older releases people can specify which "branch" of the release they > >> want (crypto, nocrypto, krb4, krb5) because there are multiple versions > >> of some files, but in recent releases there's only one version of each > >> file, and FreeBSD Update just updates whatever it finds. > > > > So how does it know when to add a new file? For example, if I didn't > > install the man dist and a new program is added, will it include both the > > new program and the manpage or just the new program? > > FreeBSD Update doesn't know how to add new files; fortunately, it doesn't > need to. Security patches don't add new files (or remove them). Yet. :) > The problem of upgrading between versions is outside of the scope of > FreeBSD Update; it exists _only_ for the purpose of of tracking the > RELENG_x_y branches. Hmm, ok. Might be useful someday to let folks choose to update their 5.3 box to 5.4, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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