standard-supfile = stable-supfile with 5.3 ?

[Ceri Davies]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:34:55AM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:15:13PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> 
> > The two files
> > 
> >  /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
> >  /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
> > 
> > both have
> > 
> >    *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
> > 
> > although the first one claims to download CURRENT.
> > 
> > And, eh, why is the filename "standard-supfile" and
> > why not the more obvious "current-supfile" ?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand.  How was your system brought up to the
> new release - was it a CD install or cvsup-ed?  If cvsup-ed what did
> you use as the tag during the cvsup?
> 
> I'm seeing what you expect both in CVS and on a system installed from
> CD:
> 
> harlow 1 % cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup/
> harlow 2 % grep "default release" standard-supfile stable-supfile
> standard-supfile:*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3
> stable-supfile:*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
> harlow 3 % uname -a
> FreeBSD harlow.cse.buffalo.edu 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Nov  4 16:14:06 EST 2004     root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
> harlow 4 %
> 
> The standard-supfile is meant for people who want to track the release
> branch as Errata/Security updates get applied to it.

Hmm.  share/examples/cvsup/README says:

  To maintain the sources for the FreeBSD-current release, use:

    standard-supfile            Main source tree

    ports-supfile               Ports collection

  To maintain the sources for the FreeBSD-stable release, use:

    stable-supfile              Main source tree

This implies that standard-supfile should be changed to track -HEAD.
It does make sense that it should track RELENG_X_Y (RELENG_5_3 in this
case) though.

> The stable-supfile
> is meant for people who want to track the *development* branch, which
> is not recommended for people who do not have the time to watch over
> the freebsd-stable mailing list (on occasion mistakes do happen in the
> development branch and other development work can at times cause
> glitches people need to be aware of).

stable-supfile is correct then; we just need to correct the README.

Ceri
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