From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 12:39:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4971016A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:39:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D7B43D46 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:39:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i6FCcqJM048867 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:38:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6FCcnYW048862; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:38:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:38:49 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Henrik W Lund Message-ID: <20040715123849.GA47977@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Henrik W Lund , Girish L , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40F623B6.1020800@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40F623B6.1020800@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:38:52 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: Girish L cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Compatibility X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:39:03 -0000 --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:27:02PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote: > I believe RELENG_5_2 has been discontinued, and replaced by RELENG_5_2_1= =20 > (if I'm wrong, someone correct me, please). Anyways, try cvsupping using= =20 > either one, as at least one of them is bound to work. That's a bit confused. 5.2-RELEASE (ie. the collection of iso images and other installer bits and pieces on the FreeBSD ftp servers) has certainly been superceded by 5.2.1-RELEASE. Most FreeBSD mirrors will only carry a couple of recent releases due to space constraints so 5.2-RELEASE has mostly disappeared, but there are some places that archive older releases -- see http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php However the CVS tags you refer to don't work in that way. First of all, there isn't a RELENG_5_2_1 tag. There is a RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE tag which marks the state of the sources used to generate 5.2.1-RELEASE. Similarly there's a RELENG_5_2_0_RELEASE tag that does the same for 5.2-RELEASE. There is also a RELENG_5_2 *branch*. The distinction between a branch and a tag is important. Checking out sources using a tag will get you a snapshot of those sources at a particular point in time. You get the same set of sources each time you check out against that tag[1]. Checking out sources using a branch will get you the latest development version from that branch, so the checkouts will vary over time. Both 5.2-RELEASE and 5.2.1-RELEASE were generated from the RELENG_5_2 branch, which is a security branch that currently gets you 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9. In effect, 5.2.1-RELEASE is just another patchset against the RELENG_5_2 branch, except on a rather larger scale and fixing more significant problems than most patches. Cheers, Matthew [1] In principal. In practice a tag can be 'slid' to account for last minute changes, but that's unusual and only tends to happen quite soon after the tag is laid down. --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA9nrZiD657aJF7eIRAtEAAJ9RRSJv927Z1MmM8GKbw0P7mGuF6gCbBoDm 672Yz8a7KMUYPdSny2xstas= =6LA4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--