From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 9:24:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F5637B421 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 09:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-63.214.200.167.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.200.167] helo=sparky) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17JGLp-00033E-00; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 09:24:34 -0700 From: Jud To: "ozdemir dogan" , freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl Cc: "freebsd" Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:24:56 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <276895455.20020615122425@dds.nl> Message-Id: <62BA98LJRROLJA7VPWQSMHBC8EC0IF.3d0b6a58@sparky> Subject: Re: a question about cvsuping source MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1126 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 6/15/2002 6:24:25 AM, Alex wrote: > > >Dear ozdemir, > >Saturday, June 15, 2002, 7:39:41 AM, you wrote: > >od> Hi.I am new in Freebsd and I want to ask something about cvsup.For example I am using Freebsd 4.5 and always cvsup the source.When Freebsd 4.6 released is my source tree equal to Freebsd 4.6's >od> source.That is, should I download the source of every release when they are released although I allways cvsup my source.And will my source tree be equal when 5.0 released.(because of the >od> difference between 4x-5x). >od> Thank you. > >It all depends on you configuration file. > >With cvsup you can decide witch source tree you wanna follow. Usaly >its best to keep track of the lastest stable version. Unless you have >a reason to do other wise. I have in my config file the tag RELENG_4_ 6 >so i get that. I changed this by hand when 4.6 came out. As I (possibly mis-)understand it, RELENG_4_6 should get you 4.6- RELEASE with any security updates. This is for folks who don't want to run the latest -STABLE (not as thoroughly tested as -RELEASE, so greater chance of bugs). Plain old RELENG_4 should get you the latest 4.x-STABLE version. This will always be at least equal to, and usually newer than, 4.x-RELEASE. By the time 5.0 is released, if there are any requirements for updating to the latest -STABLE other than changing to RELENG_5 in the appropriate supfile, I'm sure that information will be made widely available in advance. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message