From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 12: 3:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EC5637B402 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:03:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8337 invoked by uid 100); 13 Mar 2002 20:03:28 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15503.45199.899221.220487@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:03:27 -0600 To: melly@desaive.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup tags In-Reply-To: <3C8FA030.DD852DFD@gmx.de> References: <3C8FA030.DD852DFD@gmx.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 Melanie Desaive <520088040590-0001@t-online.de> types: > What is the difference between the cvsup tag RELENG_4 and RELENG_4_5? RELENG_4 is the -stable system, and include all fixes that apply to -stable at some point or another. RELENG_4.5 is Release 4.5 plus fixes approved by the release engineer. > But I tried it out: First I put the RELENG_4_5 tag in my cvsupfile, > started an update. And started it once again. At the second run it > finished without changing anything. (fine) That got you release 4.5 + a small set of fixes. > Then I put RELENG_4 into my cvsupfile and started once more. It ran as > long as at my first try, changing a lot of files (not as I expected) > After the last update I build my system, for me it seemed to work fine. > dmesg sayed afterwards, that I run a new (yesterday night) build 4.5 > Kernel. That got you all the changes that have gone into -stable since Release 4.5, and will be part of Release 4.6. Many of them are *not* part of RELENG_4_5, and never will be. > What I want to use is the tag for the newest stable system. Depends on how you define "stable". I have one production system that tracks RELENG_4, after it's been tested on machines that are *not* production. I have one machine that's still tracking RELENG_4_4, is only updated when a security hole that I'm vulnerable to is fixed, and won't be move off of 4.4 until either 1) the hardware is replaced or 2) Support for RELENG_4_4 stops. At which point it will go to the latest version release, and start tracking that. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message