From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 08:15:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2731116A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:15:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pinky.otenet.gr (pinky.otenet.gr [195.170.0.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553F743D2D for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:15:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226])i6L8Fa8H029342; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:15:41 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) i6L8HtWr077601; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:17:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost)i6L8HrDw077600; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:17:53 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:17:53 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Nikos Vassiliadis Message-ID: <20040721081753.GA77541@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <200407211037.43016.nvass@teledome.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407211037.43016.nvass@teledome.gr> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RELENG question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:15:48 -0000 On 2004-07-21 10:37, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > I need a confirmation/correction about this. Is RELENG-4 and > RELENG-4-10 the same thing, since the latest stable is 4.10? Please note that the tags do not use hyphens as in `1-2' but underscore characters as in `4_10'. The answer to your first question is: "Yes. At least these days they're equivalent." You might want to keep in mind that it's very important to make the distinction between a "branch" of development and a specific "tag". RELENG_4 is a branch, a continuous path of development that was spawned of the main FreeBSD trunk when RELENG_4 was created as a branch. As all branches this can grow or spawn new sub-branches. RELENG_4_10 is one of those sub-branches. It's a special sub-branch of RELENG_4 that "contains" a version of the sources as they were on the day 4.10-RELEASE was set in stone plus any critical security fixes that the Security Officer Team decides that should be added. > if i got this right, RELENG-4-10 will be used to stay explicitly with > 4.10-? Yes, it's a nice idea. You'll be getting everything 4.10-RELEASE included the day it was released *AND* all the fixes that are made to the initial source tree. > and RELENG-4 will be used to update to the latest 4.X-STABLE. True. > All security fixes and critical updates are in RELENG-4 too. Yes. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD: The Power to Serve keramida at ceid dot upatras dot gr http://www.FreeBSD.org/