From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 17: 6:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80C537B71A; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA55369; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:05:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200103170105.RAA55369@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness In-Reply-To: <20010316142527.B1278@mollari.cthul.hu> from Kris Kennaway at "Mar 16, 2001 02:25:28 pm" To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:05:29 -0800 (PST) Cc: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us (Chris Dillon), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), mij@osdn.com (Jim Mock), steveo@eircom.net (Steve O'Hara-Smith), arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick), jkh@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ... > > 4.3-PRERELEASE. Explains exactly what it is, and does so without the > negative connotations of -BETA. A rose is a rose by any other name... call it what it is, just don't make the committed version of newvers.sh say BETA for very long, infact it does not need to say BETA ever... 4.2-STABLE, release engineer grabs his copy of the tree to roll BETA, modifies, newvers.sh to 4.3-BETA, rolls the bits to make sure it rolled okay, optional commits 4.3-BETA newvers.sh to act as a time marker for the bits, commits newvers.sh back to 4.2-STABLE so the cvsup users don't freak. Similiar action is taken for 4.3-RC, and 4.3-RELEASE (here the version stays at 4.3, BRANCH becomes STABLE.) As far as the ports system needing the version bump for testing, well the ports build testing _SHOULD_ be done on a system built from the release engineers BETA bits, which if you'd all read very carefully what I said, WOULD have the VERSION bump. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message