Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 03:36:57 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, kris@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? Message-ID: <01080403365700.00392@spatula.home> In-Reply-To: <20010803114937X.jkh@freebsd.org> References: <20010803135402.94163.qmail@web14001.mail.yahoo.com> <20010803114937X.jkh@freebsd.org>
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[Boy do I wish I hadn't started this now!] On Friday 03 August 2001 7:49 pm, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I like -BEET. It's short, means nothing, and is red. What more could > > you ask for? :P > > Indeed! Well put. Unless I hear truly strong and well-reasoned > sentiments to the contrary, I will tag and document this as the > 4.4-BEET branch when the time comes to create it. While I'm usually all for nonsensical names (my own machine is called spatula), I think we should try and pick something related, but clear. How do we feel about 4.4-RELEASE-PATCH1, 4.4-RELEASE-p1 or 4.4-RELEASEp1 for the first commit RELENG_4_4 and 4.4-RELEASE-p2 for the second.... ? This idea has already been mentioned by various other people, but seems to have been largely ignored by the rest of the conversation which, quite understandably, became more interested in vegetables and flightless birds. :-) I think this is the best option for several reasons : 1) It makes it clear that the version you are running is basically 4.4-RELEASE plus 'something'. 2) We can tell at a glance whether you are patched against a spacific vulnerability. Security advisories can say "patched in 4.4-RELEASE-p5 simply type 'uname -r' to determine if your system has been updated since the vulnerability was patched" My original problem with the concept with the -SECURITY name was that you can't tell if you have been patched against something. Of course, just calling it -SECURITY doesn't make it any more obvious, but the patch numbers do make it obvious. So calling a system -BEET, as much as I like the name, only addresses one of my original concerns. Patch numbers would address both. -- Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> http://sour.cream.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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