Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 10:04:57 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Gemini Domino" <geminidomino@earthlink.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvsup to FreeBSD-stable Message-ID: <00de01c203fd$893d4b60$22e2910c@daleco> References: <OE337h21kxYYMFDBNVU00000e82@hotmail.com> <00cb01c201c0$7ab18c80$93ec910c@daleco> <004801c20379$93c088b0$9865fea9@asgardnet.org>
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Because -STABLE is in codefreeze in preparation for
4.6-RELEASE, it's tag currently reads 4.6-PRERELEASE
or RC [RELEASECANDIDATE]. It's *still*
FreeBSD-STABLE. There are only two branches of
development: -CURRENT, and -STABLE. At major
merge points (the last time was at 4.0), -CURRENT
and -STABLE were exactly the same for a few seconds,
and that snapshot was 4.0-RELEASE. (Figuratively speaking,
here---a few seconds, whatever.......) Some committers
will then continue to work on -STABLE until -CURRENT
meets its goals for the next major (V 5) release. At that
point, everybody is on 5.0 for a while, some people maintaining
a "Stable" environment, others looking way into the future
with, I guess, 6.0. (-CURRENT) Every few months or so,
-STABLE freezes and a new snapshot is taken, which
becomes (this year and last, anyway) 4.X-RELEASE.
ISO images are burned, CD's are printed, somebody
reminds us that there are cool T-shirts at the FBSD Mall, etc.
Now, just because there are only two branches of
*development* at any one time doesn't mean that there's
only two sets of available code. At any given time,
one could conceivably obtain and run:
-CURRENT (development for next BIG revamp)
-STABLE (development for next release)
---this is what you got on 2nd cvsup---
-RELENG_X_X (RELEASE below, with security fixes)
---this is what you got on your 1st cvsup---
-X.X-RELEASE (publicized release from -STABLE)
not to mention builds from _before_ the contemporary
X.X-RELEASE. Even now lots of folks are still on
4.4, 4.3, 3.x, etc., etc.
If you really want to know more, snoop around at
www.freebsd.org/releng/ and look at the Release
Engineering team's portion of the site. The entire
schedule for the next release, [4.6, June 1st] is at
www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/schedule.html and,
while it doesn't exactly explain what we're talking
about here, it would give a bit of insight, I suppose.
It also might be good for the alarmists out there to
see how much work is done by the courageous people
who create and maintain this OS...... ;-)
Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: "Gemini Domino" <geminidomino@earthlink.net>
To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: cvsup to FreeBSD-stable
> I used RELENG_4 and ended up on 4.6RC
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
> To: "Jaco van Tonder" <jacorex@hotmail.com>;
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1442h
> Subject: Re: cvsup to FreeBSD-stable
>
> > RELENG_4 is stable.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvs-tags.html
> >
> > Kevin Kinsey
> > DaleCo, S.P.
> >
> > From: Jaco van Tonder
> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:30 PM
> > Subject: cvsup to FreeBSD-stable
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and I like it very much. I
> > would like to update to the latest stable sersion of FreeBSD.
> >
> > Previously I ran cvsup with this line in my cvsup file:
> >
> > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_5
> >
> > After the whole process of building and installing the new sources I
> noticed
> > that I am on FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p5 (Previously I was on RELEASE).
> >
> > I obvoisly updated my sources to the Current Release patch. (I think?)
> >
> > What do I need to change my
> > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_5
> > to to get the latest -stable tree?
> >
> > Thank you in advance!
> > Regards
> > Jaco
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