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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:38:41 -0800
From:      Mark Foster <mark@foster.cc>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stable vs Release vs Current
Message-ID:  <20040218213841.GA70192@riddler.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <web-238362961@mail01.infosat.net>
References:  <web-238362961@mail01.infosat.net>

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:35:20PM +0200, David Beukes wrote:
[snip]
> Am now running 4.9 and started cvsupping the source. my
> supfile has this line in it: default release=3Dcvs
> tag=3DRELENG_4_9. Am I wasting my time? Should it rather read
> RELENG_4? If so, why?

If you want to track the security branch for RELEASE 4.9 use RELENG_4_9
Otherwise use RELENG_4 which means tracking STABLE.
=20
> And where do security patches fit into this story?=20

See above.

=20
> Any info would be helpful.

Go read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html

Then if you still have questions, ask again.
--=20
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...
Mark Foster <mark@foster.cc>  http://mark.foster.cc/


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