FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 Available

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:54:31PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:53:33PM +0100, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 21:19 schrieb Ken Smith:
> > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the
> > > availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC2.  Two critical issues came up
> > > during RC1 testing and it is felt the fixes warrant one more RC
> > > so they receive widespread testing.   If no more show-stopper
> > > problems are found this will be the last test release done before
> > > 5.3-RELEASE.
> > 
> > Sorry for wasting your time, but why is there such a big difference between 
> > -stable and RC2? Shouldn't RELENG_5 be the same as _5_3_0_RELEASE  and _5_3 
> > at that time?
> > Is the network locking data structure changes really in RC2? I see many 
> > changes only appearing in -stable also many ata-fixes only seem to be in 
> > -stable (RELENG_5).
> > 
> 
> Don't apologize - no problem.
> 
> I just did a cvs diff to make sure, and I'm not seeing any unexpected
> differences between RELENG_5 and RELENG_5_3.  The diff will show you
> a bunch of files, many along the lines of what you mention, but the
> only differences that it shows you are in the CVS version number
> strings.  The rest of the contents of the files are identical.
> 
> There are a few files where that is not the case (e.g. src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
> and a few others like that.  There is also the recent MFC of the libpthread
> stuff to RELENG_5 that shows up as different between RELENG_5 and
> RELENG_5_3, as well as some of the release related documentation.  But
> other than that I don't see any differences in the cvs diff.

You can use -kk when you diff so that it filters out noise from
$Id$ tags and such.

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