From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 28 16:14:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD9337B401 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED2543F93 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20030428231456053001ate3e>; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:14:56 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3SNEtxV096249; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Message-Id: <200304282314.h3SNEtxV096249@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Jim Brown In-Reply-To: <20030428211643.GA78945@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> References: <20030428144940.GA67429@wtf.lt> <20030428211643.GA78945@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> Comments: In-reply-to Jim Brown message dated "Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:16:43 -0400." From: "Bruce A. Mah" X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_33854310P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:14:55 -0700 Sender: bmah@employees.org cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updated software X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:14:57 -0000 --==_Exmh_33854310P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Jim Brown wrote: > > I've just finished reading FreeBSD/i386 4.8-RELEASE release notes. > > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/relnotes-i386.html) > > > > I've missed the versions of contributed software,from which that > > software was upgraded, like > > > > "BIND has been updated to version 8.3.4.". > > > > By looking at it I wonder from WHICH version it was upgraded. > > I mean, that's only for convenience, for easier comparisons and > > further expertise of the efficiency of the expected system upgrade. > > > > I am also able to find out the versions of the software manually, > > but it would be much easier to make decisions just by looking at > > the two points of specific software developement while having most > > common bugs/features in mind:) [snip] > You may be interested in browsing through the CVS repository for BIND > and other packages. You can learn what version of a port was added originall > y, > when updates were made, what patches have been applied and a wealth > (OK, maybe just a little) of information about the port. No, I think he's talking about contributed software that's in the base system. The release notes *could* give the old versions of updated software, but they don't because I was lazy (in particular, doing this for 5.0-RELEASE would have been a monumental pain). I'll try to keep this in mind when writing future items. In the meanwhile I'll gladly take patches for fixing up the existing (HEAD and RELENG_4) release notes. Everything's in the CVS repo, and it's just a matter of digging the old revisions out of CVSWeb or your local copy of the repository. Bruce. --==_Exmh_33854310P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+rbXv2MoxcVugUsMRAnq7AJ93poORTwXglwutLWelRiFx/v/2ZgCfcjvU voncH9SVBJ0q1r1cfaGhU90= =8KhU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_33854310P--