From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 5 09:00:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A62106564A for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:00:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (77-99-36-42.cable.ubr04.chap.blueyonder.co.uk [77.99.36.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA898FC0A for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7629034D440; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:00:09 +0100 (BST) From: David Southwell Organization: Voice & Vision To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:00:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/7.2-RELEASE-p2; KDE/4.2.4; amd64; ; ) References: <4ad871310908041456h433eeb01s87095a05984433e3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310908041456h433eeb01s87095a05984433e3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908051000.09434.david@vizion2000.net> Cc: Glen Barber , "b. f." Subject: Re: cvs tag usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:00:13 -0000 > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:32 PM, b. f. wrote: > >> He has _7_2_0_RELEASE, not RELENG_7_0_2_RELEASE. > > > > Well, neither actually. :) s/0_2/2_0/ . But I inferred from the > > context -- it seemed obvious, particularly from what he wrote later > > -- that he meant those choices as suffixes to RELENG, which he omitted > > for the sake of brevity. I assumed you also made this inference. > > Agreed, but IMHO, it's better to be precise and not assume too much. :-) OK guys this has now reached the point where I am again confudes -- here is my original posting amended to ensure there is no ambiguity I am confused about the usage of the tag for src. I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices: RELENG_7_BP RELENG_7_2_BP RELENG_7_2_0_RELEASE RELENG_7_2 But could not find anything that told me where -p2 fits into this!! # uname -a 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 24 00:14:35 UTC 2009 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 To synchronize src and keep up to date do I use: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_2 will this automatically track the latest version in 7_2 and therefore keep track with 7.2-RELEASE-p2 or later?? or do I need to use something like: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_2-p2 or something else!! Where can I find some explanation on this? Maybe something from this discussion could be added to the handbook/synching.html page so the choice of suffix for configuring cvsup could be made easier for those who are not familiar with the meaning of undocumented suffixing such as -p2 !!. Another could there possibly be some consistency between the output from uname -a and the suffixing used for synching of the src be practicable. Please do not bite my head off if it is not practical -- I acknowledge it is a question born of ignorance and confusion david Thanks in advance David