Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 02:16:40 -0400 From: "Paul Dufresne" <dufresnep@fastmail.fm> To: "Robert Marella" <rmarella@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is 5.4 p2 ? Message-ID: <1118557000.32245.236172918@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <42ABBE3B.6000903@gmail.com> References: <5EEBE9C3C61D1142994C6B620C51E847110B80@depot.weblinkmo.com> <17059.37867.174248.688500@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <42A3A5F4.8090807@gmail.com> <20050606023235.GA81334@osiris.chen.org.nz> <42A3B9B6.5070800@gmail.com> <20050606025554.GB81546@osiris.chen.org.nz> <42A3BCF9.8090200@gmail.com> <42A3CBF8.5020809@daleco.biz> <5fee5e3005060612044d4197fe@mail.gmail.com> <42AB694C.4040302@gmail.com> <1118550208.28396.236171067@webmail.messagingengine.com> <42ABBE3B.6000903@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:46:51 -1000, "Robert Marella" <rmarella@gmail.com> said: > Paul Dufresne wrote: > >>and more curious. I updated one of my systems to 5.4 p2 today > > > > > > Being a newcomer to FreeBSD, I understand about Release version, > > STABLE version and CURRENT one. But I don't understand this > > p2 you are refering to. > > I could guess it means point release 2, so I checked: > > http://www.freebsd.org/where.html > > But files seems to be for 5.4-RELEASe still from May 8. > > > > So what is 5.4 p2 ? > > > > robert@p4:~> uname -a > FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 5.4-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2 #1: Fri > Jun 10 11:45:43 HST 2005 > root@p4.konav201.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/P4-5_4REL i386 > > It is my understanding that the p# stands for the second patch to 5.4 > Release. Correct me if I am wrong. > > Robert Hum, let me reformulate this in my own words, to see if I understand. You are running 5-STABLE, and this is the second time 5-STABLE was generated from RELENG_5 branch since 5.4 was released. (I did looked at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html to write this) Ok, fine, I was thinking that maybe there was some kind of 5.4.2 release, but no, there will be no official release to 5.4 until 5.5. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free
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