Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 00:34:11 -0500 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 Available Message-ID: <20041102053411.GW93831@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20041102045430.GA25111@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20041031201950.GA99257@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu> <200411011653.39466.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> <20041102045430.GA25111@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:54:31PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:53:33PM +0100, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 21:19 schrieb Ken Smith: > > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the > > > availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC2. Two critical issues came up > > > during RC1 testing and it is felt the fixes warrant one more RC > > > so they receive widespread testing. If no more show-stopper > > > problems are found this will be the last test release done before > > > 5.3-RELEASE. > > > > Sorry for wasting your time, but why is there such a big difference between > > -stable and RC2? Shouldn't RELENG_5 be the same as _5_3_0_RELEASE and _5_3 > > at that time? > > Is the network locking data structure changes really in RC2? I see many > > changes only appearing in -stable also many ata-fixes only seem to be in > > -stable (RELENG_5). > > > > Don't apologize - no problem. > > I just did a cvs diff to make sure, and I'm not seeing any unexpected > differences between RELENG_5 and RELENG_5_3. The diff will show you > a bunch of files, many along the lines of what you mention, but the > only differences that it shows you are in the CVS version number > strings. The rest of the contents of the files are identical. > > There are a few files where that is not the case (e.g. src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > and a few others like that. There is also the recent MFC of the libpthread > stuff to RELENG_5 that shows up as different between RELENG_5 and > RELENG_5_3, as well as some of the release related documentation. But > other than that I don't see any differences in the cvs diff. You can use -kk when you diff so that it filters out noise from $Id$ tags and such. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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