Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:20:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/61598: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html should be updated with info on updating 5.2 w/o HEAD Message-ID: <200404231520.i3NFKcPV090242@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/61598; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/61598: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html should be updated with info on updating 5.2 w/o HEAD Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:14:54 +0300 --cQXOx3fnlpmgJsTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:58:05PM -0500, Chris Pepper wrote: > >Description: > The Handbook, in particular > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html, > lacks information on updating 5.2. > I'm testing the water, after tracking 4_RELENG for a while, and don't > want to use CURRENT, but nformation on the equivalent to RELENG_4 is > hard to find. I see RELENG_5_2 in cvsweb -- is there something else I > should track to keep 5.2 updated without going fully bleeding-edge? > This should also probably be mentioned in the FAQ. No, there is no such branch for the present. Currently, the only 5.x branches available are HEAD (the bleeding-edge -CURRENT itself) and the release branches (or security branches) RELENG_5_0, RELENG_5_1, RELENG_5_2, RELENG_5_2_1. None of them has the semantics of a stable branch because, well, 5.x is not yet deemed stable. When the transition to 5.x-STABLE is made, a new RELENG_5 branch will be created and it will then have the same 'stable branch' semantics as the current RELENG_4. This will most likely happen with the release of FreeBSD 5.3 in a couple of months. > Similarly, http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ should be updated (the > HEAD comment says 5.2 is not yet announced). I think this has happened in the meantime :) > >Fix: > Update these URLs with information on tracking 5.2 -- is > RELENG_5_2 only for security fixes, comparable to RELENG_4_8? Is > there any alternative to track aside from CURRENT (tag=3D.)? No, there is no alternative yet. As explained above, the RELENG_5 (stable) branch will probably be cut with FreeBSD 5.3. For the present, yes, there is only the release branch RELENG_5_2, which only carries security fixes. Thus, there doesn't seem to be anything that would need updating on the above URL's, except the updates that have already been done as things progressed with the release of 5.2.1 and the upcoming 4.10 :) G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If I had finished this sentence, --cQXOx3fnlpmgJsTP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAiTLt7Ri2jRYZRVMRAn+HAJ4kWLLNdhZh/faBHs2GsRyEbDDPrACgtmEZ 0V4TaANTRHUjjjrjnom3JCo= =FyRx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cQXOx3fnlpmgJsTP--
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