From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 16:00:06 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 572DD16A4CF for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:00:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E258343D1F for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:00:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (52.80-202-129.nextgentel.com [80.202.129.52]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82490316E; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:00:35 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <40F728A4.3060902@broadpark.no> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:00:20 -0700 From: Henrik W Lund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: nb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <40F623B6.1020800@broadpark.no> <20040715123849.GA47977@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040715123849.GA47977@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16:00:06 -0000 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certainly been superceded by 5.2.1-RELEASE.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