Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Pete French wrote:
> I appear to have a machine which will not run RELENG_6_2, though it runs
> the released code quite happily. Is there a CVS tag I can use to revert the
> sources back to the way they were on RELEASE? I want to be able to
> verify that this is and track down what changed! I don't think it should
> ever be the case that something which runs X.Y-RELEASE will not run RELENG_X_Y
> should it ?

According to my records of commits, there were only three post-release
commits to RELENG_6_2, and they were all fixes for security advisories
or errata notices.  They were:

FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind (9 Feb 2007)
FreeBSD-EN-07:02.net and FreeBSD-EN-07:03.rc.d_jail (28 Feb 2007)
FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update (15 Mar 2007)

All of these were vetted pretty closely by secteam@ and domain experts
(and usually re@ as well).  The only one of these that touched the
kernel was FreeBSD-EN-07:02.net, which backed out an IPv6-related
regression that was introduced late in the 6.2 release cycle.  I'm
personally pretty skeptical that this could cause a problem, although
I'm admittedly a little biased, plus there weren't a lot of details in
your email as to what the problem is.

To answer your last question:  If your machine runs 6.2-RELEASE, then
RELENG_6_2 should run on it.

Bruce.


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