From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 25 8: 5:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0C737B405 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 08:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daleco [12.145.226.34] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.06) id A7EC11B00026; Sat, 25 May 2002 10:04:12 -0500 Message-ID: <00de01c203fd$893d4b60$22e2910c@daleco> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Gemini Domino" Cc: References: <00cb01c201c0$7ab18c80$93ec910c@daleco> <004801c20379$93c088b0$9865fea9@asgardnet.org> Subject: Re: cvsup to FreeBSD-stable Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 10:04:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." 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." > To: "Jaco van Tonder" ; > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message