From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 15 10:54:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.otenet.gr (ns1.otenet.gr [195.170.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6E937B892 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 10:47:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by ns1.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4FHkcwH003055 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:46:38 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b183.otenet.gr [212.205.244.191]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4FHiYHL017702; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:44:35 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4FHib6m065693; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:44:37 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4FHffku065648; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:41:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:41:40 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Albert Martinez Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd update tag? Message-ID: <20020515174140.GD65155@hades.hell.gr> References: <005301c1fbb7$527571a0$0200a8c0@bear.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005301c1fbb7$527571a0$0200a8c0@bear.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <005301c1fbb7$527571a0$0200a8c0@bear.edu> Albert Martinez 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message