From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 4:51:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C40237B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB8643F85 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:51:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b202.otenet.gr [212.205.244.210]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1MCpX2O028921; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:51:34 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1MCp5CZ003409; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:51:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1MCp36I003408; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:51:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:51:03 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Tuc Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP of 4.7 only? Message-ID: <20030222125103.GA3374@gothmog.gr> References: <20030221204938.GC70911@gothmog.gr> <200302220626.h1M6QYuG002086@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302220626.h1M6QYuG002086@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-22 01:26, Tuc wrote: > > > RELENG_4_7 - More current than _RELEASE, but only with critical > > > updates. > > What you describe, in slightly different words, is EXACTLY what > > the tag RELENG_4_7 is :-))) > > I thought it was 4.7 with **ONLY** security and **ONLY** critical > updates, NOT anything else. That's exactly what it is. It is a security branch[3]. No new features are added to it. Not even manpage updates. The security branches *only* receive absolutely minimal changes to fix any problems related to security they might have. > My impression was 4_7 was just those items, 4 was those plus other > non-important and "things to get us to the next level." No, that's RELENG_4. The security branches[3] like RELENG_4_7 *only* receive critical & security related fixes. That's it. Nothing more. They are not the same as RELENG_4. > So your telling me that if I CVSUP 4_7, I technically will get the > same tree as 4 up until the day the uname banner changed to > 4.8-PRERELEASE? Thats not my impression of what 4_7 is. I don't know what you mean by 4_7. In fact, before this turns out a very confusing thing for both of us, since you seem to mean different things by saying "critical fixes" than I do, please, if you still feel confused about tags their meaning and what the release process of FreeBSD is, refer to the following documents: [1] FreeBSD Release Engineering. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html [2] The FreeBSD Handbook. Staying STABLE with FreeBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE [3] FreeBSD Security Advisories http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv If, after reading these you still have questions about the meaning of every tag, then it's a bug in the documentation and we should do something about it :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message