Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:27:02PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote:
I believe RELENG_5_2 has been discontinued, and replaced by RELENG_5_2_1
(if I'm wrong, someone correct me, please). Anyways, try cvsupping using
either one, as at least one of them is bound to work.
That's a bit confused. 5.2-RELEASE (ie. the collection of iso images
and other installer bits and pieces on the FreeBSD ftp servers) has
certainly been superceded by 5.2.1-RELEASE. Most FreeBSD mirrors will
only carry a couple of recent releases due to space constraints so
5.2-RELEASE has mostly disappeared, but there are some places that
archive older releases -- see
http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php
However the CVS tags you refer to don't work in that way. First of
all, there isn't a RELENG_5_2_1 tag. There is a RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE
tag which marks the state of the sources used to generate
5.2.1-RELEASE. Similarly there's a RELENG_5_2_0_RELEASE tag that does
the same for 5.2-RELEASE.
There is also a RELENG_5_2 *branch*. The distinction between a branch
and a tag is important. Checking out sources using a tag will get you
a snapshot of those sources at a particular point in time. You get
the same set of sources each time you check out against that tag[1].
Checking out sources using a branch will get you the latest
development version from that branch, so the checkouts will vary over
time.
Both 5.2-RELEASE and 5.2.1-RELEASE were generated from the RELENG_5_2
branch, which is a security branch that currently gets you
5.2.1-RELEASE-p9. In effect, 5.2.1-RELEASE is just another patchset
against the RELENG_5_2 branch, except on a rather larger scale and
fixing more significant problems than most patches.
Cheers,
Matthew
[1] In principal. In practice a tag can be 'slid' to account for last
minute changes, but that's unusual and only tends to happen quite soon
after the tag is laid down.
Thanks for the clarification! CVS as a concept is much like women - just
when I think I've got it figured out, I am proven otherwise. Oh, well. ;-)
-Henrik W Lund
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