Branch Tags vs Release Tags

[Bob Perry]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> writes:
>
>  
>
>>Edmund Craske wrote:
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
>>>No problem, in fact it would make little sense not to use this branch.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I guess that 's what so confusing.  Who would benefit using
>>
>>RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE?
>>    
>>
>
>Look at it this way.  
>
>If someone installed the 4.9 release, from a set of disks they bought
>in a store, and then they had a question about it, I might want to
>help them figure out their problem.  Because there is a
>RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE tag, I can look at the files that produced their
>release.  It makes no sense that anyone would download those files to
>install from, but some people can actually read the source files.
>
>  
>
Lowell/Ed,

It's very clear now.  I guess I was just looking at things as they 
related to upgrading
one's system.  Thanks for following up with your explanations.

Bob

-- 
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 0#