On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:42:48AM -0600, Huver wrote: > BTW, I made the mistake of cvsup'ing to RELENG_4 from a 4.6.2, thinking I > was updating to 4.7, now I'll have to back down to 4.7+post-patches. I'm > entering a reqeust now: in the future, "pre-release" be made a new, short- > lived branch (delete it after the release is cut), but OFF the stable branch.
Why? The only difference between 4.7-stable and 4.8-prerelease is the name. I.e. a system running 4.7-stable and one running 4.8-prerelease are both just running snapshots of RELENG_4 from somwehere in time between 4.7-RELEASE and and 4.8-RELEASE. After 4.8 is released the name of the RELENG_4 branch will be changed to 4.8-STABLE, but the name change itself does not denote any changes in the code. One could of course imagine not changing the name that is reported by uname -a, but that the only thing that would accomplish is to avoid questions from people that are surprised when they get 4.8-prerelease when they expected 4.7-stable. This is just a problem with faulty expectations and not with the naming scheme itself. If it is really 4.7-release you wanted, then RELENG_4 is the wrong branch, and RELENG_4_7 is probably what you want (4.7-release + critical patches.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
