Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:00:20 -0700 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Compatibility Message-ID: <40F728A4.3060902@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20040715123849.GA47977@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <b659ff5a04071411536be52e9b@mail.gmail.com> <40F623B6.1020800@broadpark.no> <20040715123849.GA47977@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: >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 >>(if I'm wrong, someone correct me, please). Anyways, try cvsupping using >>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certainly been superceded by 5.2.1-RELEASE.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. > > > Thanks for the clarification! CVS as a concept is much like women - just when I think I've got it figured out, I am proven otherwise. Oh, well. ;-) -Henrik W Lund
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