From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 18:44:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oscar-wilde.condo.chico.ca.us (adsl-63-192-100-64.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.192.100.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC46137B405 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (localhost.condo.chico.ca.us [127.0.0.1]) by oscar-wilde.condo.chico.ca.us (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f951il312640; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:44:47 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: just checking Message-ID: <1992106.1002221086@[192.168.1.10]> In-Reply-To: <20011004204121.6a125fce.nmace85@yahoo.com> References: <20011004185309.4be0c7d0.nmace85@yahoo.com> <20011004204121.6a125fce.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 --On Thursday 4 October 2001 20:41 -0400 Nathan Mace wrote: > so all i have to do to track STABLE is cvsup RELENG_4.?? even when 4.5 > comes out stable will still be RELENG_4.?? Yes, although it's RELENG_4 without a dot at the end. > > nathan >> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Nathan Mace wrote: >> >> > ok, i'm just making sure i've got this right >> > >> > the following line gets me 4.4 release code right? >> > *default release=cvs tar=RELENG_4_4 >> >> No, this gets you the security-fix version of 4.4-RELEASE. Using >> RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE gets you 4.4-RELEASE. >> >> > so how do i get 4.4-STABLE? what do i need to change? >> >> Use RELENG_4. >> >> > also....how many versions stay 'up-to-date' at once? since there is >> > version 4.4 is 4.3 & 4.2 still patched against bugs? >> >> New features are only available in the latest -STABLE. However, >> critical >> security bugs (such as the telnetd root exploit) will be fixed in the >> security releases (RELENG_4_4 and RELENG_4_3.) >> >> > there is only one STABLE at any givin time right? currently it is >> > 4.4-STABLE....right? >> >> Yes. STABLE is the "stable" development track, and eventually becomes >> the >> next -RELEASE. > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Fred Condo - fred@condo.chico.ca.us Repeal the DMCA. Stop censoring Felten & Ferguson. http://www.macfergus.com/niels/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message