Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:53:26 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: jhelfman@e-e.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced... Message-ID: <20110226165326.GA41733@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <201102251501.11318.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4D66CCFF.9020903@buffalo.edu> <20110225160109.GA32260@lava.net> <20110225180019.GD76063@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <201102251501.11318.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:01:11PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
...
> No, release branches long pre-date freebsd-update. However, before we
> switched to svn for source, new branches did not bump all the $FreeBSD$ tags.
> That is a side effect of the way that the SVN -> CVS exporter works (and
> arguably a bug).
>
> BTW, I did design etcupdate to support this sort of use case (you can build a
> tarball from a given release tree and use that as the basis for comparisons
> assuming you were bootstrapped to use etcupdate). Currently freebsd-update
> doesn't use etcupdate and the author doesn't have any interest in changing it
> to do so.
>
> At some point if I have some time to hack on freebsd-update to be more useful
> for modified versions of FreeBSD (e.g. building snaps from tags in an SVN
> repository instead of a directory of patches against a CVS checkout), I will
> probably hack it to support using etcupdate to manage /etc updates as well.
>
> (etcupdate uses something akin to 'svn up' to update files in /etc, so things
> like $FreeBSD$ changes just auto-update assuming they don't result in merge
> conficts.)
That would be nice. Since freebsd-update clearly has done something
like generate the deltas for X.Y->Z.W for /etc files, if it were to
assume the status quo ante is that files in /etc are based on the X.Y
version of the /etc, it should already be able to do slightly smarter
things than it's doing. Hmmm.
-- Clifton
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