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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:43:18 -0300
From:      Pablo Carboni <pcarboni@gmail.com>
To:        Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches
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Hi Damien (I'm sorry for delay)

Thanks for your comments (specially for the tips / experience with your
-STABLE boxes)

Regards,
Pablo Carboni.


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote:

> However minor the issue seems, I think it warrants a PR, if at least so
> the entry is added for the next revision of 8.4-RELEASE.
>
>
> Regarding -STABLE, while I respect your decision to be conservative and
> run -RELEASE, I'd like to point out we've not run into any problem here, in
> over 3 years with ~40 firewall boxes.
>
>
>
> On 4 September 2013 17:48, Pablo Carboni <pcarboni@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Damien,
>>
>> I use to install and update 'Releng'  releases (plus patches, but  not
>> stable releases) in our production servers (Ok, I agree stable is fine, but
>> my main reason is to be conservative under some circunstances).
>>
>> (BTW, You're right, on 8-STABLE branch, it appears the 'missing' line I
>> was looking for)
>>
>> Just as a last comment, I've found this 'normal line' on stable branch
>> (but not on release/releng):
>>
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?view=log
>>
>> Revision *251500*<http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=251500>; -
>> (view<http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?revision=251500&view=markup>)
>> (download<http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?revision=251500&view=co>)
>> (annotate<http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?annotate=251500>)
>> - [select for diffs]<http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?view=log&r1=251500&log_pagestart=0>;
>>
>> Modified *Fri Jun 7 15:52:33 2013 UTC* (2 months, 4 weeks ago) by *
>> pluknet*
>> File length: 74494 byte(s)
>> Diff to previous 251026<http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/UPDATING?r1=251026&r2=251500>;
>>
>> Add the entry for 8.4-RELEASE.
>>
>>
>> (I think it should be added by someone to 8.4 releng branch). If this is
>> the case, shouldn't be sent this 'missing entry' to anyone by the means of
>>  'PR' ?
>>
>> Thank you very much for your patience :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pablo.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote:
>>
>>> Note that, as opposed to you, I'm tracking 8-STABLE and not 8.4-RELEASE !
>>>
>>> UPDATING:
>>> $FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.632.2.39 2013/08/23 15:21:39 svnexp Exp $
>>>
>>> newvers.sh:
>>> # $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.83.2.25 2013/08/07 08:26:07
>>> svnexp Exp $
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll check our clusters of firewalls to see if I've got any 8.4-RELEASE
>>> box lying around, but don't hold your breath, we almost universally track
>>> 8-STABLE...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4 September 2013 00:49, Pablo Carboni <pcarboni@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Damien,
>>>>
>>>> (First at all, thanks for your response).
>>>>
>>>> I do not want to insist too much with this silly thing, but....(just in
>>>> case)
>>>>
>>>> I've updated my sources today from svn0.us-west.freebsd.org(base/releng/8.4), - previously to my first e-mail - and:
>>>>
>>>> (Argentina's current TZ is GMT-3)
>>>>
>>>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  74967 Sep  3 12:11 /usr/src/UPDATING
>>>>
>>>> The 'grepped' lines, shows me:
>>>>
>>>> 8.3-RELEASE
>>>> [...]
>>>> 8.0-RELEASE
>>>>
>>>> (But 8.4 still doesn't appear).
>>>>
>>>> (However, while grepping first lines in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
>>>> shows me:
>>>>
>>>> # $FreeBSD: releng/8.4/sys/conf/newvers.sh 254632 2013-08-22 00:51:56Z
>>>> delphij $
>>>>
>>>> TYPE="FreeBSD"
>>>> REVISION="8.4"
>>>> BRANCH="RELEASE-p3"
>>>>
>>>> (Same svn id for UPDATING/newvers.sh).
>>>>
>>>> Any clues? (What's your svn $Id for UPDATING? - I mean, the whole line,
>>>> the last)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Pablo Carboni.
>>>>
>>>> P.S.: The same happens for
>>>> svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING.
>>>> <http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING>;
>>>>
>>>> (Maybe I'm afraid for local syncing problems on my fbsd server)
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> From:
>>>>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  75631 Aug 27 12:46 /usr/src/UPDATING
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 20130607:
>>>>>         8.4-RELEASE.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3 September 2013 18:16, Pablo Carboni <pcarboni@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Sirs,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with no luck.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe I've made a mistake and I was looking inside a wrong file/url?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It doesn't appear, neither
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/UPDATING?revision=251259&view=markup
>>>>>> (RELEASE
>>>>>> branch)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> nor
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/UPDATING?view=markup&pathrev=254632
>>>>>> (RELENG
>>>>>> branch, currently last revision).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (This 'little detail' includes sources for 8.4-RELEASE and branch
>>>>>> 8.4-RELEASE-p3, which I've downloaded recently).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A quick & dirty search I've did on a 8.4-RELEASE-p3 box:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> grep "8\..*-RELEASE" /usr/src/UPDATING
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (There is no reference for '8.4')
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Pablo Carboni
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>



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