Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-03 Thread Dave Hayes
Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER STARTING THIS THREAD!!! It's been hashed Double gah. Forget I said anything. ;) However, just ranting about this problem[0] won't accomplish anything other then wasting a lot of time and energy, IMO. There's plenty of historic

Re: -PRERELEASE (was: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP)

2002-05-03 Thread Thomas Seck
* Bruce A. Mah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If memory serves me right, Aragon Gouveia wrote: Slightly off topic... I just upgraded an fbsd machine of mine to 4.6-PRERELEASE (RELENG_4). What does prerelease mean in FreeBSD terms? Isn't this in the FAQ somewhere? If not, it should be. :-)

Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-03 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
On Friday 03 May 2002 02:37 am, Dave Hayes wrote: | | | All this dovetails with something I expressed earlier, with regards to | annotating documentation. Somehow, this community needs to be able to | process a certan class of ideas in a format other than linear mailing | lists. Perhaps some sort

Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-02 Thread Kosta K
From the handbook, which really is meant to be the first thing that is to be read before using cvsup? In terms of FreeBSD, the convention is the following: FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and with the

Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:03:24PM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: I'm sure you folks hashed this all over before, but really...calling a branch -stable when it really isn't is not good semantic practice IMNSHO. DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER STARTING THIS THREAD!!! It's