From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 7 05:55:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE03916A400 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 05:55:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C32C13C459 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 05:55:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.213]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JHN00DN7PSIN0E0@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 May 2007 23:55:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JHN0083TPSGYL60@pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 May 2007 23:55:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JHN008IAPSFT4W0@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 May 2007 23:55:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 15892 invoked from network); Mon, 07 May 2007 05:55:25 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Mon, 07 May 2007 05:55:25 +0000 Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 22:55:24 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20070507052955.GB1408@mooseriver.com> To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Message-id: <463EBF4C.9090801@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <20070507052955.GB1408@mooseriver.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061227) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS tags X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 05:55:29 -0000 Josef Grosch wrote: > I have been spending a lot of time building machines at work. Our engineers > want to have the machine in question to have a specific version of FreeBSD, > ie. FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p11 for example. I have noticed that there is not > a CVS tag for this in the tree. Is there a specific reason why we do not > tag the tree for the patch levels? Yes; two reasons in fact: 1. Tagging the tree for every security update isn't feasible in CVS. 2. There is a branch available for "RELEASE plus the all available security and critical errata fixes" (RELENG_X_Y for X.Y-RELEASE), and you should never not install all available security and critical errata fixes. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer