From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 16 14:24:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA19307 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19300 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01548; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:22:34 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199608162122.OAA01548@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Sup-ing stable To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Richard Wackerbarth at "Aug 16, 96 04:09:11 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Rodney Grimes writes: > > >I think there is enough confusion out there that the strings should be > >changed to this: > >TYPE="FreeBSD" > >REVISION="2.1.5" > >BRANCH="STABLE" > > Well, that is your opinion. My opinion is slightly different. > Here is my interpretation of the way things should be... > > > "Stable", and for that matter "current", do not really designate > development branches. I feel that they are simply aliases that reflect the > state of development. Using both "2.1.5" and "STABLE" is redundant. Erhh.. try again ``Stable'' has a direct corresponding CVS tag, that tag happens to be a branch tag (cvs tag -b) and as of almost a year ago has the value ``RELENG_2_1_0''. ``Current'' has a direct correspoding CVS tag, all be it invisible, known as ``HEAD''. ``2.1.5'' is a POINT on a BRANCH, it has a corresponding tag value of ``RELENG_2_1_5''. You can _NOT_ sup ``2.1.5-RELEASE'' except for the window of dates I pointed out in the message about the commits to newvers.sh. > I think that "2.1" is the proper name of the branch. Not really, that is a version on a branch (namely the cvs tag ``RELENG_2_1_0_RELEASE'', which has been superceded by ``RELENG_2_1_5_RELEASE). NEITHER of which are ``BRANCHES'' per se. > We are awaiting the CD for revision "RELEASE-5" > Those who have gotten today's update are at revision "CTM-154" > > However, to help avoid confusion among the uninitiated, perhaps we should > call today's version "FreeBSD 2.1.5-154","FreeBSD 2.1.5p154", or something > similar. Been discussed, find an ``elegant'' way to do it and it might be done... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD