Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:40:17 -0700 From: "Alex M" <alex@myzona.net> To: "Andrew Boothman" <andrew@cream.org>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? Message-ID: <001e01c11bac$7c98d440$9601a8c0@parkson> References: <01080300314100.00395@spatula.home>
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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
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