Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 22:55:24 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS tags Message-ID: <463EBF4C.9090801@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070507052955.GB1408@mooseriver.com> References: <20070507052955.GB1408@mooseriver.com>
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Josef Grosch wrote: > I have been spending a lot of time building machines at work. Our engineers > want to have the machine in question to have a specific version of FreeBSD, > ie. FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p11 for example. I have noticed that there is not > a CVS tag for this in the tree. Is there a specific reason why we do not > tag the tree for the patch levels? Yes; two reasons in fact: 1. Tagging the tree for every security update isn't feasible in CVS. 2. There is a branch available for "RELEASE plus the all available security and critical errata fixes" (RELENG_X_Y for X.Y-RELEASE), and you should never not install all available security and critical errata fixes. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer
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