From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 20:43:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 AB0D216A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:43:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duncan.fbsd@gmail.com) Received: from smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F18843D45 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:43:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duncan.fbsd@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 64409 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2006 20:43:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pres1750.mylan.net) (donaldj@ameritech.net@69.212.23.169 with plain) by smtp113.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2006 20:43:19 -0000 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:43:00 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <43EA9782.7060708@chrismaness.com> <50124.67.126.165.122.1141236591.squirrel@squirrel.kq6up.org> <20060302145304.O49063@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20060302145304.O49063@tripel.monochrome.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603021443.00951.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Maness Subject: Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:43:20 -0000 On Thursday 02 March 2006 13:59, Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, chris@chrismaness.com wrote: > > [snip] > > > Is my supfile correct to track security for freebsd-6.0? > > [snip] > > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 > > [snip] > > As I understand it, that tag will get you the latest released version > of 6.x. So today it would apply security and bugfix updates for 6.0, > but after 6.1 comes out you would get 6.1, and so on. If you want to > track 6.0 specifically, use RELENG_6_0. Right now there is no > difference between RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_0, but later there will be. > > As everyone else has said, see the Handbook for definitive answers. > > HTH. > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > _______________________________________________ This is not quite correct. "tag=RELENG_6" will give you the src for 6-STABLE, which is to say "FreeBSD 6.1 PRELEASE", or maybe its RELEASECANDIDATE now. tag=RELENG_6_0 will get you the sources for the 6.0 release branch, used only for security and other critical fixes. So yes, there is a difference between the two tags. Don