Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:51:03 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP of 4.7 only? Message-ID: <20030222125103.GA3374@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <200302220626.h1M6QYuG002086@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> References: <20030221204938.GC70911@gothmog.gr> <200302220626.h1M6QYuG002086@himinbjorg.ttsg.com>
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On 2003-02-22 01:26, Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com> wrote:
> > > RELENG_4_7 - More current than _RELEASE, but only with critical
> > > updates.
> > What you describe, in slightly different words, is EXACTLY what
> > the tag RELENG_4_7 is :-)))
>
> I thought it was 4.7 with **ONLY** security and **ONLY** critical
> updates, NOT anything else.
That's exactly what it is. It is a security branch[3]. No new
features are added to it. Not even manpage updates. The security
branches *only* receive absolutely minimal changes to fix any
problems related to security they might have.
> My impression was 4_7 was just those items, 4 was those plus other
> non-important and "things to get us to the next level."
No, that's RELENG_4. The security branches[3] like RELENG_4_7 *only*
receive critical & security related fixes. That's it. Nothing more.
They are not the same as RELENG_4.
> So your telling me that if I CVSUP 4_7, I technically will get the
> same tree as 4 up until the day the uname banner changed to
> 4.8-PRERELEASE? Thats not my impression of what 4_7 is.
I don't know what you mean by 4_7. In fact, before this turns out a
very confusing thing for both of us, since you seem to mean different
things by saying "critical fixes" than I do, please, if you still feel
confused about tags their meaning and what the release process of
FreeBSD is, refer to the following documents:
[1] FreeBSD Release Engineering.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html
[2] The FreeBSD Handbook. Staying STABLE with FreeBSD.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE
[3] FreeBSD Security Advisories
http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv
If, after reading these you still have questions about the meaning of
every tag, then it's a bug in the documentation and we should do
something about it :)
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