From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 23:41:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4913037B899 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@pool0410.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net) Received: from pool0410.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool0410.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.251.155]) by penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01859; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool0410.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00618; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:39:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:39:01 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mark Rowlands Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why did cvsup cvsup me from 4.0-stable to 4.1RC? Message-ID: <20000716233900.A276@pool0343.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <00071708191900.03398@marbsd.tninet.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00071708191900.03398@marbsd.tninet.se>; from mark.rowlands@minmail.net on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:46:11AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:46:11AM +0200, Mark Rowlands wrote: [snip] > This, to me, indicates that I have some fundamental misunderstandings re cvsup / > release tags . I thought the above would track 4-stable in perpetuity. > > so what have I done wrong ? Nothing. You have 4-STABLE. All 4.x-RELEASEs where ( x > 0 ) are simply snapshots of STABLE. However, before a RELEASE version is blessed as such from the STABLE brach, it must be ensured to be stable (as opposed to STABLE, if you know what I mean). During this time committing changes is limited only to important upgrades and bug-fixes, and the STABLE branch is temporarily called "RELEASE CANDIDATE" to note it. > Should I care? Not really. It's still STABLE. > does 4.1 = 4.0+ so many fixes and enhancements we decided to have a new > release nuimber? It's more schedule driven than a certain volume of changes. > Will this my cvsup file eventually track 4.1-STABLE? You are tracking the STABLE branch, and eventually it will be called 4.1-STABLE. Yes. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message