Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:25:39 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RELENG confusion RELENG_4 RELENG_4_5 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020129082421.29256M-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020129141426.F580-100000@levais.imp.ch>
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Martin Blapp wrote:
> As I have noted (after many cvsups and checks what went wrong), that
> RELENG_4 is now for security fixes only.
>
> I think if this is really the case, there should be a note in
> /usr/src/UPDATE for RELENG_4, that it is necessary to change the RELENG
> tag to RELENG_4_5 be able to track STABLE.
This is completely backwards.
RELENG_4 continues to be the 4.x-STABLE branch.
RELENG_4_5 is the 4.5-RELEASE branch that will eventually hold
RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, as well as various patchlevels for security
fixes.
That said, clear documentation of this in UPDATING might be useful.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services
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