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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:29:06 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        taxman <taxman@ACD.NET>, Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVSUP of 4.7 only?
Message-ID:  <200302211629.06993.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <200302211910.19923.taxman@acd.net>
References:  <200302211408.h1LE8NDO000416@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> <200302210617.00018.kstewart@owt.com> <200302211910.19923.taxman@acd.net>

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On Friday 21 February 2003 10:10 am, taxman wrote:
> On Friday 21 February 2003 03:16 pm, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Friday 21 February 2003 06:08 am, Tuc wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 	I have :
> > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
> > >
> > > 	in my stable-supfile, and on one machine all of a sudden on the
> > > last update I have :
> > >
> > > FreeBSD vjofn.ttsg.com 4.8-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE #1:
> > > Thu Feb 20 13:5 2:11 EST 2003
> > > root@vjofn.ttsg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VJOFN  i386
> > >
> > > 	Heres my problem. I've been CVSUPing machines with RELENG_4, is
> > > there a way I can continue only with the 4.7 tree? I tried :
> > >
> > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_7
>
> That is correct to continue with the 4.7 release branch.  See below
>
> > > 	and it looked like it was re-checking out everything.
> >
> > That is what it was doing. You were checking out 4.7-release plus
> > security fixes.
>
> correct.  Tuc, you were in essence reverting to 4.7 release plus the
> security fixes, which is behind in the development tree from 4-stable
> (4.x) which is rapidly approaching 4.8-release.
>
> > > Does that mean
> > > it was getting 4.7 as it was first released,
>
> No, it is the release branch.  It is possible to get it as it was
> first released with a different tag, but why would you unless one of
> the security fixes broke something for you?

Never mind what I said. I was in a hurry and didn't read it properly.

He was following stable and none of the above will get that back for 
him. As a current version, 4.7-stable is gone, since RELENG_4 is now 
called

FreeBSD ruby 4.8-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE #30: Tue Feb 18 
20:10:15 PST 2003     root@ruby.kbs.com:/usr2/obj/usr/src/sys/RUBY  
i386


Kent

>
> >> and when I did
> >>
> > > "RELENG_4" it was 4.X as current as it was?
>
> yes
>
> > > Is there another tag for
> > > "4.7 most current"?
> >
> >There is no more 4.7 most current.
>
> Kent, that is not correct.  That is what the release branch *is*. 
> 4.7 release plus security fixes. and the tag for it is as above. 
> see:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.ht
>ml
>
> >You could set the
> > date on your cvsup but there won't be any more changes to
> > 4.7-stable.
>
> There is no such thing as 4.7-stable
>
> > It doesn't exist in the current tree. In a while, RELENG_4 will be
> > 4.8-release and then 4.8-stable.
>
> That's a way of thinking of it, but a confusing one, and not the one
> used by the project.  The stable tree only has a major number like
> 4-stable or eventually 5-stable.  The releases are static points
> along the moving stable development track  like this
>
>
> --\------------\----------------\--------->4.x stable
>     \               \               \
>      \-4.6Rel     \-4.7Rel     \-4.8Rel  (soon)
> 			 \
> 			  \-4.7Rel-p1
> 			       \
> 				\-4.7Rel-p2   etc
>
> 4-stable is called 4-stable throughout the process of branching off
> releases, to avoid confusion. (which changing the name of 4-stable
> after every release could cause.)   It's just the way it's done.
>
> Tim

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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