Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 20:12:22 -0400 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: base source: release vs releng Message-ID: <d34e9cb2-95cd-cdab-b511-21e2c126ab72@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20160918015028.5616cf0c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <46503065-0829-9481-0ec2-e41ae71e3756@columbus.rr.com> <20160918015028.5616cf0c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 09/17/16 19:50, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:45:44 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: >> As I understand this: >> >> The difference between release and releng is that releng gets security >> fixes and "back ports/fixes" and release does not? >> >> Or have I completely missed the boat and I am all wet? > The term "releng" means "release engineering" and is something like > a word for "the whole release process", the task of creating a release > of the OS, in which there are basically three levels: > > RELEASE - this is the release which gets published electronically > and on optical media > > RELEASE-pX - this is a RELEASE where security updates have been > added to, indicated by patchlevel X > > STABLE - this is the stable development branch, i. e. the branch > in which ABIs and APIs are stable, and which usually does > compile and run; typcally from this branch, security updates > are provided for RELEASE > > CURRENT or HEAD - this is the experimental development branch, the > place where testing happens, so it isn't _guaranteed_ to > compile and run properly; it's often in a "state of flow", > i. e. doesn't compile now, wait 2 hours, update sources, > recompile, works; from this branch, features are put into > production development (appearing in STABLE) or discarded > (which also _may_ happen) > > You can find more information here: > > https://www.freebsd.org/releng/ > > Ok I am still confused svn.freebsd.org has for example ( if I got this correct ) base/head - CURRENT-12 base/stable/11 - STABLE-11 base/releng/10.1 - ? base/release/10.1.0 - ? Which one would have FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p35 or later? I got the part on how to use svnlite to fetch the source, I just don't know which one is what I want to update uname -a FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p35 #0 net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Thanks
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