Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:43:00 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> Subject: Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System Message-ID: <200603021443.00951.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060302145304.O49063@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <43EA9782.7060708@chrismaness.com> <50124.67.126.165.122.1141236591.squirrel@squirrel.kq6up.org> <20060302145304.O49063@tripel.monochrome.org>
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On Thursday 02 March 2006 13:59, Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, chris@chrismaness.com wrote: > > [snip] > > > Is my supfile correct to track security for freebsd-6.0? > > [snip] > > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 > > [snip] > > As I understand it, that tag will get you the latest released version > of 6.x. So today it would apply security and bugfix updates for 6.0, > but after 6.1 comes out you would get 6.1, and so on. If you want to > track 6.0 specifically, use RELENG_6_0. Right now there is no > difference between RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_0, but later there will be. > > As everyone else has said, see the Handbook for definitive answers. > > HTH. > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > _______________________________________________ This is not quite correct. "tag=RELENG_6" will give you the src for 6-STABLE, which is to say "FreeBSD 6.1 PRELEASE", or maybe its RELEASECANDIDATE now. tag=RELENG_6_0 will get you the sources for the 6.0 release branch, used only for security and other critical fixes. So yes, there is a difference between the two tags. Don
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