Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:41:40 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Albert Martinez <albertem@bellatlantic.net> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd update tag? Message-ID: <20020515174140.GD65155@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <005301c1fbb7$527571a0$0200a8c0@bear.edu> References: <005301c1fbb7$527571a0$0200a8c0@bear.edu>
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Albert Martinez <albertem@bellatlantic.net> writes:
> Hi, I recently installed freebsd 4.5 cd release. I use openbsd which uses
> it's stable branch to apply security fixes, bug fixes, and other safe
> changes. Obviousely freebsd stable does not fullfill the same roll.
Sure it does. This is what the RELENG_4 branch is all about. This
will smoothly upgrade your sources to the latest FreeBSD-STABLE version.
You probably mean that new features and enhancements are not being
backported to RELENG_4_5, but that is the ``security branch'' of
4.5-RELEASE and not FreeBSD-STABLE.
> I was looking around the cvsweb and noticed RELENG_4_5_BP.
> What is it?
This requires a bit of explanation of how CVS works with tags and
branches, and it might require a bit more than a single email message
to fully explain it. Suffice it to say that RELENG_4_5_BP is the
``branchpoint'' of RELENG_4_5_RELEASE. This is a tag in every file
that will fetch you the revision of the sources as it was when the
branching of 4.5-RELEASE happened in the FreeBSD source tree.
This isn't of much use to FreeBSD users, but mostly to people who want
to roll their own copy of the 4.5-RELEASE later on.
--
Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org
keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve
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