From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 21:41:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC9616A41F; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:41:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mv.twc.weather.com (mv.twc.weather.com [65.212.71.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D623343D46; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:41:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.50.40.201] (Not Verified[10.50.40.201]) by mv.twc.weather.com with NetIQ MailMarshal (v6, 0, 3, 8) id ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:57:02 -0400 From: John Baldwin To: Colin Percival Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:42:38 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200508190356.j7J3uj5D095435@repoman.freebsd.org> <200508221615.37569.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <430A4223.6080009@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <430A4223.6080009@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508221742.39896.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:41:56 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org