From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 15:29:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAD316A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:29:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CB743D75 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:28:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C94D1E93A for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:28:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:28:56 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: R8djPcpQGLivUOmHlBojXQc8jA4e+ti82JTpNvcLpySf 1133796534 Received: from gumby.localdomain (88-104-193-64.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com [88.104.193.64]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2B7571483 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:28:54 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:28:51 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <43932546.4090904@redstarling.com> <200512051056.33305.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> In-Reply-To: <200512051056.33305.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512051528.53138.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: how to track 6.0 increments ? 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: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:29:03 -0000 On Monday 05 December 2005 10:56, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Sunday 04 December 2005 17:20, ke.han wrote: > > I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). =A0I just want > > security fixes and other changes that might be termed 6.01 if there were > > such a thing. > > I've always wondered this. Is there a reason why the FreeBSD team put > security updates into a branch rather than a 6_0_x release tag? If you are asking why they don't use a different tag for each point release= ,=20 then I think the answer is that it would require you to know precisely what= =20 the latest release is and edit the cvsup file each time. With RELENG_6_0 yo= u=20 get the latest point release automatically. Incidently in 6.0.x, x is not the point release number, it's a number that'= s=20 only rarely used. The 5.2 release had some substantial fixes, and the FreeB= SD=20 version was bumped up to 5.2.1, though the tag was still RELENG_5_2.