From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jan 12 11:40:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEABD37B41E for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 11:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0CJe2R25189; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 11:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 11:40:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201121940.g0CJe2R25189@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Jim Overholt Subject: Re: misc/33806: stable supfile get you release, should get stable Reply-To: Jim Overholt Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/33806; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jim Overholt To: mike_makonnen@yahoo.com (Mike Makonnen) Cc: overholt@cisco.com (ji overholt), freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/33806: stable supfile get you release, should get stable Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 11:30:51 -0800 (PST) but the standard supfile also points to RELENG_4. in fact the only difference between the 2 is comments, so why have 2. supfile-standard will not get current, it will also get RELENG_4. jim > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:32:56 -0800 (PST) > ji overholt wrote: > > >Description: > > both the stable and standard supfiles get RELENG_4 > > that's ok for the standard file, > > but should the stable file get you 4.X.stable? > > The supfiles are correct. Standard-supfile gets you the latest sources in the -CURRENT branch(which is the development branch). Stable-supfile gets you the latest -STABLE sources (which currently is 4.x). > > The releases are simply "snapshots" of the stable branch. That is to say, the stable branch code goes into code-freeze a couple of months before a realease is due, and only important changes and bug fixes are commited to the -stable branch. > During this time various realease candidates (RC) are also released for testing. You just happened to cvsup when we are getting ready to come out with a new release in the -stable branch. > > Cheers, > mike makonnen > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message