From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 28 8:35:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24F237B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:35:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls20o913.telia.com [213.67.148.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68C5A43F75 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:35:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: (qmail 6736 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Feb 2003 16:35:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:35:14 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Huver Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8 PreRelease problems Message-ID: <20030228163514.GA6679@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Huver , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200302281542.JAA02094@amgraf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302281542.JAA02094@amgraf.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:42:48AM -0600, Huver wrote: > BTW, I made the mistake of cvsup'ing to RELENG_4 from a 4.6.2, thinking I > was updating to 4.7, now I'll have to back down to 4.7+post-patches. I'm > entering a reqeust now: in the future, "pre-release" be made a new, short- > lived branch (delete it after the release is cut), but OFF the stable branch. Why? The only difference between 4.7-stable and 4.8-prerelease is the name. I.e. a system running 4.7-stable and one running 4.8-prerelease are both just running snapshots of RELENG_4 from somwehere in time between 4.7-RELEASE and and 4.8-RELEASE. After 4.8 is released the name of the RELENG_4 branch will be changed to 4.8-STABLE, but the name change itself does not denote any changes in the code. One could of course imagine not changing the name that is reported by uname -a, but that the only thing that would accomplish is to avoid questions from people that are surprised when they get 4.8-prerelease when they expected 4.7-stable. This is just a problem with faulty expectations and not with the naming scheme itself. If it is really 4.7-release you wanted, then RELENG_4 is the wrong branch, and RELENG_4_7 is probably what you want (4.7-release + critical patches.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message