Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:10:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Swiger <chuck@pkix.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: docs/66610: Update handbook re: CVSup tags Message-ID: <20040513141017.BCA9C54F5@mail.pkix.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200405131420.i4DEKLTI015822@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 66610
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Update handbook re: CVSup tags
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu May 13 07:20:21 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Chuck Swiger
>Release: FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
PKIx
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD sec.pkix.net 4.10-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE #4: Sat May 8 21:51:36 EDT 2004 root@sec.pkix.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NORMAL i386
>Description:
Doc change request in Message-id: <20040512224755.GB34090@xor.obsecurity.org>
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A.
>Fix:
--- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml Sat Apr 24 13:41:22 2004
+++ /tmp/chapter.sgml Thu May 13 10:00:37 2004
@@ -2207,11 +2207,9 @@
- <para>When obtaining or updating sources from
- <application>cvs</application> and
- <application>CVSup</application> a revision tag (reference to a
- date in time) must be specified.</para>
-
- <para>A revision tag refers to either a particular line of FreeBSD
+ <para>When obtaining or updating sources using
+ <application>cvs</application> or
+ <application>CVSup</application>, a revision tag must be specified.
+ A revision tag refers to either a particular line of &os
development, or a specific point in time. The first type are called
- <quote>branch tags</quote>, the second type are called <quote>release
- tags</quote>.</para>
+ <quote>branch tags</quote>, and the second type are called
+ <quote>release tags</quote>.</para>
@@ -2378,6 +2376,13 @@
- <para>These tags correspond to the FreeBSD <filename>src/</filename>
- tree (and <filename>ports/</filename>, <filename>doc/</filename>, and
- <filename>www/</filename> trees) at a specific point in time, when a
- particular version of FreeBSD was released.</para>
+ <para>These tags refer to a specific point in time when a particular
+ version of &os was released. The release engineering process is
+ documented in more detail at <ulink
+ url="http://www.freebsd.org/releng/"Release Engineering Information
+ </ulink> and <ulink
+ url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.html"
+ Release Process</ulink>. The <filename>src/</filename> tree uses
+ RELENG_* tags; the <filename>ports/</filename> and
+ <filename>docs/<filename> trees use RELEASE_* tags; and the
+ <filename>www/</filename> tree is not specially tagged for releases.
+ </para>
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