Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:21:07 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: taxman <taxman@ACD.NET>, Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP of 4.7 only? Message-ID: <200302211621.07257.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200302211910.19923.taxman@acd.net> References: <200302211408.h1LE8NDO000416@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> <200302210617.00018.kstewart@owt.com> <200302211910.19923.taxman@acd.net>
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On Friday 21 February 2003 10:10 am, taxman wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2003 03:16 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > > On Friday 21 February 2003 06:08 am, Tuc wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have : > > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > > > > > > in my stable-supfile, and on one machine all of a sudden on the > > > last update I have : > > > > > > FreeBSD vjofn.ttsg.com 4.8-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE #1: > > > Thu Feb 20 13:5 2:11 EST 2003 > > > root@vjofn.ttsg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VJOFN i386 > > > > > > Heres my problem. I've been CVSUPing machines with RELENG_4, is > > > there a way I can continue only with the 4.7 tree? I tried : > > > > > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_7 > > That is correct to continue with the 4.7 release branch. See below > > > > and it looked like it was re-checking out everything. > > > > That is what it was doing. You were checking out 4.7-release plus > > security fixes. > > correct. Tuc, you were in essence reverting to 4.7 release plus the > security fixes, which is behind in the development tree from 4-stable > (4.x) which is rapidly approaching 4.8-release. > > > > Does that mean > > > it was getting 4.7 as it was first released, > > No, it is the release branch. It is possible to get it as it was > first released with a different tag, but why would you unless one of > the security fixes broke something for you? > > >> and when I did > >> > > > "RELENG_4" it was 4.X as current as it was? > > yes > > > > Is there another tag for > > > "4.7 most current"? > > > >There is no more 4.7 most current. > > Kent, that is not correct. That is what the release branch *is*. > 4.7 release plus security fixes. and the tag for it is as above. > see: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.ht >ml Not true. See the following RELENG_4_7 The release branch for FreeBSD-4.7, used only for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes. The release is RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7 Kent > > >You could set the > > date on your cvsup but there won't be any more changes to > > 4.7-stable. > > There is no such thing as 4.7-stable > > > It doesn't exist in the current tree. In a while, RELENG_4 will be > > 4.8-release and then 4.8-stable. > > That's a way of thinking of it, but a confusing one, and not the one > used by the project. The stable tree only has a major number like > 4-stable or eventually 5-stable. The releases are static points > along the moving stable development track like this > > > --\------------\----------------\--------->4.x stable > \ \ \ > \-4.6Rel \-4.7Rel \-4.8Rel (soon) > \ > \-4.7Rel-p1 > \ > \-4.7Rel-p2 etc > > 4-stable is called 4-stable throughout the process of branching off > releases, to avoid confusion. (which changing the name of 4-stable > after every release could cause.) It's just the way it's done. > > Tim -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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