From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 9 23:24: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9924237B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 23:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDFAA43E75 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 23:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17dPfG-0009D9-0U; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:23:54 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:19:13 +0100 To: Jim McAtee Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: Using CVSup References: <019d01c23fd7$2d44d740$272fa8ce@jim> <01c101c23fd8$78b4b5f0$272fa8ce@jim> <020a01c23fdf$419a8de0$272fa8ce@jim> In-Reply-To: <020a01c23fdf$419a8de0$272fa8ce@jim> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Someone, quite probably Jim McAtee, once wrote: >Thanks, Kevin. I'm beginning to understand a little better. Of the cvsup >tags that appear at this URL, what's the difference between those at the top >of the page and those below? For example, the difference between RELENG_4_6 >AND RELENG_4_6_1_RELEASE? 4_6_1 is a rare thing. Basically not long after 4.6 was released there was a major scare with OpenSSH so instead of waiting for 4.7 a minor release was suggested which offered some non-essential security features. Another scare in OpenSSL means 4.6.1 was trashed for 4.6.2 and a whole lot of extra work for the quality team. Now, the _RELEASE at the end of the line refers to the exact code that first made up 4.6.1 and will always remain so, 4_6_1 is the same code but with extra security and other critical patches. Without the _RELEASE it's called a security branch, which should give a clue why you'd be better using 4_6 than 4_6_RELEASE in 99% of cases. >What would be the way of saying "lastest RELEASE", or is it more advisable >to know exactly which one you want and explicitly specify it in the supfile? You basically need to know, but it is in the top right hand corner of http://www.freebsd.org/ so life isn't that hard :-) Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message