From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 7:14:49 2003 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 602A437B405 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from sirius.wcom.co.uk (sirius.wcom.co.uk [193.131.254.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EA143FDF for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:14:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Philip.Payne@uk.uu.net) Received: from sirius.wcom.co.uk ([166.59.190.29]) by sirius.wcom.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18mEsu-0007AW-01; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:14:44 +0000 Received: from dougal (dougal [166.59.190.113]) by sirius.wcom.co.uk (4.0.1.37) with ESMTP id PAA27476; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:14:36 GMT Received: from ukcamgate1.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net ([62.191.1.65]) by dougal with esmtp (Exim 4.10.11) id 18mEsi-0003WD-00; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:14:32 +0000 Received: by ukcamgate1.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:14:26 -0000 Message-ID: <36D04A8168B2D41182250008C7E6F8780374F4D1@ukcamexch2.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net> From: Philip Payne To: "'Tuc'" , Philip Payne Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: CVSUP of 4.7 only? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:14:25 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) MIME-Version: 1.0 (Generated by NET-TEL Mailguard SMTP version 4.0.1.40) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Spam-Score: -7.1 (-------) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18mEsu-0007AW-01*T5qRwWgCU.w* 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 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs- > tags.html > > > So if I read it right: > > RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE - First ever 4.7 release. Oldest and never > updated past that day it was tagged > > RELENG_4_7 - More current than _RELEASE, but only with critical > updates. > > RELENG_4 - More current than 4_7, has non critical updates and > tweaks, but doesn't guarantee it being 4_7 branch. > Sounds right. > So there isn't a way to make sure I stay in 4.7, but get all the > fixes, right? Well... that would surely be RELENG_4_7 i.e. the 4.7 release + security fixes required. As soon as you want general updates to the system then you're talking about moving from 4.7-Release onto the 4-Stable branch. I'm no FreeBSD developer so if someone wants to explain better what each of the tags means feel free. Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message