Which branch to use as tag for 5.2.1?

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Wed Jul 7 18:58:41 PDT 2004


On Wednesday 07 July 2004 08:01 pm, Rickard Borgmäster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying out FBSD 5.2.1 at the moment to see if it will work OK
> with my onboard VIA 8237 SATA Controller, which didn't work that fine
> in 4.10.
>
> I'm about to do a buildworld. But I have a little difficult
> understanding what tag to set in my cvsupfile? I want something
> similar to RELENG_4 but for 5.x. Ie, the latest "release" with fixes
> applied. Which branch is that?
>
> Browsing CVSweb I find these:
> * RELENG_5_2_BP
> * RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE
> * RELENG_5_2_0_RELEASE
> * RELENG_5_2
> * RELENG_5_1_BP
> * RELENG_5_1_0_RELEASE
> * RELENG_5_1
> * RELENG_5_0_BP
> * RELENG_5_0_0_RELEASE
> * RELENG_5_0
>
> I don't want CURRENT, so it has to be one of these, I suppose. But I
> can't find anything on the net that tells me exactly what each branch
> is.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rickard Borgmäster

Appendix A6 of the handbook may help:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould


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