Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:45:30 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Richard Fairfield" <rcf@ms.washington.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make installworld fails Message-ID: <004f01c20c4b$d2a1e120$5fec910c@daleco> References: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0206041833330.216245-100000@entropy.ms.washington.edu>
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From: "Richard Fairfield" <rcf@ms.washington.edu> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:45 PM Subject: Re: make installworld fails > > > Here are the contents of /etc/cvsupfile : > > > > > > *default host=cvsup8.FreeBSD.org > > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > > > *default prefix=/usr > > > *default release=cvs > > > *default tag=RELENG_4_4 > > > > That's the security branch for 4.4-RELEASE and not 4.5-RELEASE. > > > > Oops :) > > > > Giorgos. > > > Oops it right! The string above string "RELENG_4_4" is a typo. I'm > not sure how it got in there. What I meant to have there is "RELENG_4", > which is what I originally had on a different system after running cvsupit. > > But I'm confused about whether I want the tag string to be RELENG_4 or > RELENG_4_5. I've read the cvsup section in the handbook, and the cvsup > sections in FreeBSD Released and The Complete FreeBSD, but I don't > get it. Can someone explain the difference to me??? > Hopefully I can, it's not _too_ hard. RELENG_4_5 was FBSD 4.5-RELEASE in January and has since become "patched" with security fixes until it's no longer what it was...some people (perhaps Linux backgrounds) call it 4.5-RELEASEpx (I think x=6 or more....) It might be called the -SECURITY branch by some, but it's really just 4.5-RELEASE that has been patched for you by someone else. RELENG_4 is -STABLE. It was the same as RELENG_4_5 at the moment 4.5-RELEASE was built. Since that time, RELENG_4 has had not only security fixes, but all kinds of changes and improvements that will lead to it being 4.6-RELEASE whenever the RELease ENGineering team is ready for 4.6, which should be any day now...at some future point, RELENG_4 might branch to a 4.7-RELEASE, etc. Then, at some date in 2003, -CURRENT will step to the limelight as 5.0-RELEASE and RELENG_4 will slowly vanish into the mists of memory...but, no worries, RELENG_5 will take it's place as -STABLE and -CURRENT race ahead to a grand future, albeit on seperate roads... ;-) Some folks are reluctant to run RELENG_4 on "production" servers because code gets committed to the -STABLE branch that may be removed later because a better way is found (these folks think of -STABLE as a beta-release of the next 4.x, I guess....) A RELEASE tag indicates that a lot more testing has gone into the build. STABLE is rebuilt frequently (daily perhaps? I know -CURRENT is...) One of the later chapters in the Handbook, "the Cutting Edge," has definitive info on this. > thanks again, > rcf HTH, Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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