Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:11:39 -0500 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "hal" <hal@cc.usu.edu>, <Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11 Message-ID: <002a01c739cc$0f555270$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <A2DCA9BA-8E7A-4302-96E1-FD7191A04215@cc.usu.edu><20070116205934.GA91779@dan.emsphone.com> <CA2620E6-11F0-439B-AF09-CB2E215422BF@cc.usu.edu>
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> On Jan 16, 2007, at Tuesday, Jan16, 2007 1:59 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > Since it's not a security issue, I doubt the new zone files will go > > into any -p# branch. If you were tracking the main branches (RELENG_4 > > or RELENG_6) instead of a -RELEASE branch (RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_6_1), > > you would have them, though. Quickest fix would be to install the > > misc/zoneinfo port, which doesn't care what release you're running. > > Whoa there?! Are you telling me that when I use cvsup with > the following supfile I am only getting security fixes? > > *default tag=RELENG_6_1 > *default host=cvsup14.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html: RELENG_6_1 The release branch for FreeBSD-6.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes I'm sure a case could be made with regard to updated timezone information being "critical" -- but since a port exists for timezone information, there is less of a need to push this into the release branch. -- Matt Emmerton
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