From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 16:43:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.myzona.net (dsl027-179-063.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.27.179.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C9637B412 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@myzona.net) Received: from parkson (adsl-64-172-24-237.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.172.24.237]) by voyager.myzona.net (mta) with SMTP id f72NdUq04599; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@myzona.net) Message-ID: <001e01c11bac$7c98d440$9601a8c0@parkson> Reply-To: "Alex M" From: "Alex M" To: "Andrew Boothman" , References: <01080300314100.00395@spatula.home> Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:40:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2479.0006 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why are you surprised to see 4.3-release again? were you trying to track -stable? then you should use the stable-supfile. Handbook covers this issue very clearly about the branches. > My only surprise was that, a "uname -r" still reports the OS version as being > 4.3-RELEASE. I guess, in a way, this still is 4.3-RELEASE since it has had no > other changes apart from a few security patches. But, to me, this violates > the idea that a -RELEASE is a snapshot of a development branch. Because, you > can cvsup with tag=RELENG_4_3_RELEASE or tag=RELENG_4_3 and get two > (slightly) different sets of sources, both of which claim to be the > definitive 4.3-RELEASE. > > Further, in my case, the RELENG_4_3 world was made on a different box, and > then exported to and installed on my gateway box, which doesn't have any > sources on it. How can I tell that the box is running the patched 4.3-RELEASE > and not the 'original' 4.3-RELEASE as the sources are not available? > > Might it be time to invent a new development branch name like FreeBSD > 4.3-SECURITY or 4.3-PATCHED or something like that? > > Comments? > > Thanks! > > Andrew. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message