From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 12:17:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301E916A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F4743F3F for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:17:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9SKHFF1016895; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:17:15 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20031028105856.00ac2ad0@pop.courtesymortgage.com> References: <5.2.1.1.0.20031028085609.00afa820@pop.courtesymortgage.com> <5.2.1.1.0.20031028085609.00afa820@pop.courtesymortgage.com> <5.2.1.1.0.20031028105856.00ac2ad0@pop.courtesymortgage.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:17:14 -0500 To: Jason Williams , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Clarification on CVS Tags X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:17:24 -0000 At 11:00 AM -0800 10/28/03, Jason Williams wrote: >Thanks Matthew for your explanation. You answered a lot >of my questions. Makes sense now really. > >Just out of curiosity, why would someone want to use: > >RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE? > >Is there some type of benefit? >One would think that the best option for production >servers is: > >RELENG_4_8 > >Thanks for your insight. The "security" or "safe" branches (such as RELENG_4_8) are relatively new. We still have to have tags such as RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE for the release process, and you can use any tag for cvsup. Before the "security" branches existed, we used to encourage people to upgrade to those release-tags instead of upgrading to stable. There are still times when you might want to cvsup to a release point. Of course, once you do the buildworld for that point, then you'll never see any new changes until you switch to a different tag for cvsup. For instance, it might be quite reasonable to cvsup to a release tag, and once you know that worked you would then cvsup to some later release tag, or to RELENG_4 ("stable"). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu