From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 20 14:59: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F6A37B48B for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:58:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32453 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 22:58:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO helios.dub.net) ([216.27.176.75]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Jan 2002 22:58:47 -0000 Received: by helios.dub.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 167AA312A; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:58:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:58:46 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: Ian Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: cvsup usable UTC date for tracking -stable Message-ID: <20020120225846.GA34004@helios.dub.net> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: <20020120215731.GA21074@helios.dub.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i 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 Sun, 20 Jan 2002 at 15:37:41 -0700, Ian wrote: > >>>> I'm not sure what you're talking about here. The "current" > >>>> -STABLE branch *is* 4.5-RC2. > >> > >> jim, i know. but after release of the -rc2 iso image, -stable is > >> more than just -rc2. > > > > It's not, really. newvers.sh doesn't even change at all (through > > RC1, 2, etc.). It still just says RC. > > Jim, you said this on irc yesterday too, and I'm having as hard a time > understanding it now as I did then... > > If nothing changes between RC1, RC2, RC3, etc, then why is someone > going to the trouble of making a series of ISO images and releasing > them? Certainly there are no major new additions of functionality, > but something must be changing to justify the creation of a new > release candidate? There are changes made (not many, and as you said, not significant), but the version in newvers.sh doesn't change. It's the same now (RC), as it was when the RC1 ISO was rolled (was RC then too). The reason the ISOs are rolled so new installs can be tested. If you're building world, you won't have a uname output that says FreeBSD-RC1, -RC2, -RC3, etc. It will still just say -RC. As I said in another message, there are no tags put down for the various RCs, so it's going to be hard to cvsup exactly what's been turned into the RC ISO image(s). - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message