From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 20:53:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C6116A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from davidfuchs.ca (domains1.davidfuchs.ca [216.113.197.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FF743D3F for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@davidfuchs.ca) Received: from [24.82.197.178] (helo=[127.0.0.1]) by davidfuchs.ca with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BVjIA-0000n6-14 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:53:22 -0700 Message-ID: <40BEA0BA.6020709@davidfuchs.ca> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:53:30 -0700 From: David Fuchs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: CVS Tags X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:53:28 -0000 Maybe I'm the only one confused by this, but would someone mind stating plainly what the difference is between the following CVS tags found at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html: RELENG_4 RELENG_4_10 RELENG_4_10_0_RELEASE I assume RELENG_4_10_0_RELEASE is what the sources were tagged as at the time 4.10 was made an official release, and then development toward 4.11 is made under the name RELENG_4. If that's the case, then what is RELENG_4_10? The page says that RELENG_4_10 is 'the release branch for FreeBSD-4.10, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.' Does this mean there are two lines of development here? Thanks, -David