From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 2 10:05:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA08999 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA08959 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xGofm-0000A3-00; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:04:22 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.7/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA02207; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:05:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710021705.LAA02207@harmony.village.org> To: dg@root.com Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , jkh@time.cdrom.com, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 08:44:23 PDT." <199710021544.IAA21048@implode.root.com> References: <199710021544.IAA21048@implode.root.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 11:05:19 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199710021544.IAA21048@implode.root.com> David Greenman writes: : >How about the fact that a 2.2.2 release occured, but somthing built : >from the bits on the 2.2.0 branch report via uname that they are : >2.2-STABLE. That is going down! : : No, "2.2" refers to the branch, not to a release. I think we make that : pretty clear. This reminds me of the joke about a helicopter pilot, fog and Microsoft support. While it is true that 2.2 does refer to the branch name, it is *NOT* specific enough. The release name for the 2.2 stable branch should be the last release on that branch followed by -STABLE. I've got several systems around here that are nearly impossible to determine what rev is on them because they all say 2.2-STABLE, even though some of them are from the 2.2.0 time frame, and others are 2 hours old. If I can't tell the difference, then autoconfig scripts that use uname can't either. *PLEASE*PLEASE*PLEASE* listen to Rod. The kernels after 2.2.5-RELEASE should be called 2.2.5-STABLE. Warner