Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:06:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: config is out of sinc Message-ID: <200405271406.i4RE6KV04957@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040527113518.GB9499@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> from "Matthew Seaman" at May 27, 2004 12:35:18 PM
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> > I am a little confused on the differen=
> ce of=20
> > RELENG_4_9 and RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE. Is the first one for stable systems,=
> and=20
> > the later one for current systems?
>
> Think of it like this:
>
> RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE marks the *beginning* of the RELENG_4_9 branch.
>
> RELENG_4_9 marks the *end* of the RELENG_4_9 branch.
>
> Thus the set of files labelled as RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE won't change
> over time, whereas the set of files labelled as RELENG_4_9 will, to
> account for the security patches added to 4.9-RELEASE.
>
> The terms 'stable' and 'current' don't apply to the RELENG_4_9 or any
> of the other release branches. Think of the whole source repository
> of FreeBSD as like a tree. The tree has a trunk, which corresponds to
> 'CURRENT' ('.' in cvsup, also called 'HEAD' in cvs), and the tip of
> that trunk to the latest development versions of all of the files,
> etc. that go to make up the sources.
>
> Every so often a major branch grows out of that trunk: those are the
> -STABLE branches. That branching happens on average about once every
> two years. The first level branches have labels like 'RELENG_4' in
> cvs. Every few months you then get a 2nd level '-RELEASE' branch from
> the -STABLE branches: those have labels like 'RELENG_4_9'. Usually
> there's just the one main -STABLE branch actively being developed at a
> time and spawning release branches.
>
> As a special case at the moment, some -RELEASE branches have been
> produced directly off the main trunk (CURRENT) -- those are precursors
> to the imminent creation of the newest main branch to be called
> 5-STABLE.
Geez, you keep this up and you're going to end up making this
process all clearly understood. No mystery left... ;-)
////jerry
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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