RELENG_7 - has mergemaster changed logic since 7.2-RELEASE?

[Daniel Gerzo]

On Thu, 07 May 2009 09:40:52 +0200, "Matthias Andree"
<ma at dt.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Am 05.05.2009, 09:46 Uhr, schrieb Daniel Gerzo <danger at freebsd.org>:
> 
>> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>>
>>> I always use -iU too.
>>> I've lost motd, passwd, group and master.passwd
>>> During mergemaster -p I was asked to merge changes to some of these,
and
>>> still they were replaced with the newer versions. I don't know what
went
>>> wrong but have restored them from backup. (I always tar /etc before a
>>> source upgrade). Upgrading another system using freebsd-update did not
>>> cause any problem.
>>
>> I have the same experience while I was upgrading a few machines  
>> upgrading from RELENG_7 to RELENG_7_2. I haven't experienced when  
>> upgrading from 7.1-R to 7.2-R.
> 
> Careful there - RELENG_7 is _newer_ than RELENG_7_2. The latter is  
> branched off RELENG_7 at some point and progresses much slower (as in:  
> errata and security, but no development), so that's no "update", but
often 
> 
> the reverse.

That's not definitely true all the time. You could for example update your
7.1 to releng_7, say in Sept. 2008, then run this box until releng_7_2 was
branched and when you update to it at that point you actually are doing an
update, definitely not a downgrade.

-- 
Kind regards
  Daniel