From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 16:18:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC31C16A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:18:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp005.bizmail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp005.bizmail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.175.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9406C43D5D for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:18:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noackjr@supercrime.org@70.240.195.95 with login) by smtp005.bizmail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Nov 2004 16:18:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2AD6114; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:18:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03080-10; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:18:39 -0600 (CST) Received: from www.noacks.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9954260CF; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:18:39 -0600 (CST) Received: from 69.53.57.66 (SquirrelMail authenticated user noackjr); by www.noacks.org with HTTP; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:18:39 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <59104.69.53.57.66.1100017119.squirrel@69.53.57.66> In-Reply-To: <41909E5F.7020300@yahoo.com> References: <20041109103151.40F326147@hoppel.local> <41909E5F.7020300@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:18:39 -0600 (CST) From: "Jon Noack" To: "Rob" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: scottl@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: standard-supfile = stable-supfile with 5.3 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:18:42 -0000 Rob wrote: > Björn König wrote: >> Rob wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> both have >>> >>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 >>> >>> although the first one claims to download CURRENT. >>> >>> And, eh, why is the filename "standard-supfile" and >>> why not the more obvious "current-supfile" ? >> >> It only claims, but it doesn't bring you -CURRENT. >> That's the reason why it should not be renamed. >> The standard-supfile contains the standard tag of your release >> to keep it up to date. Maybe someone will change this sentence >> in standard-supfile to 'This file contains all of the "CVSup >> collections" that make up the FreeBSD-stable source tree.' soon. > > If so, then why do we have a standard-supfile and a stable-supfile doing > the same thing? If both bring you -STABLE, one of the two seems to be > redundant to me and having two sup files doing the same only causes > confusion. On 4.X they were different; stable-supfile got you RELENG_4 but standard_supfile got you RELENG_4_X. This same scheme was used for 5.0, but as of 5.1 it was not carried over. I brought this up on current@ back in December: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-December/thread.html#15935 The consensus was that we needed an example file for -CURRENT (say, current-supfile) just like stable-supfile. The behavior of standard-supfile would then be designed to keep you tracking the most appropriate branch (HEAD if using -CURRENT, RELENG_X if using -STABLE, RELENG_X_Y is using a release). My thoughts and a patch to make this happen: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-December/016071.html Jon