Linux Compatibility

[Henrik W Lund]

Matthew Seaman wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:27:02PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote:
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>>I believe RELENG_5_2 has been discontinued, and replaced by RELENG_5_2_1 
>>(if I'm wrong, someone correct me, please). Anyways, try cvsupping using 
>>either one, as at least one of them is bound to work.
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>That's a bit confused.  5.2-RELEASE (ie. the collection of iso images
>and other installer bits and pieces on the FreeBSD ftp servers) has
>certainly been superceded by 5.2.1-RELEASE.  Most FreeBSD mirrors will
>only carry a couple of recent releases due to space constraints so
>5.2-RELEASE has mostly disappeared, but there are some places that
>archive older releases -- see
>
>    http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php
>
>However the CVS tags you refer to don't work in that way.  First of
>all, there isn't a RELENG_5_2_1 tag.  There is a RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE
>tag which marks the state of the sources used to generate
>5.2.1-RELEASE.  Similarly there's a RELENG_5_2_0_RELEASE tag that does
>the same for 5.2-RELEASE.
>
>There is also a RELENG_5_2 *branch*.  The distinction between a branch
>and a tag is important.  Checking out sources using a tag will get you
>a snapshot of those sources at a particular point in time.  You get
>the same set of sources each time you check out against that tag[1].
>Checking out sources using a branch will get you the latest
>development version from that branch, so the checkouts will vary over
>time.
>
>Both 5.2-RELEASE and 5.2.1-RELEASE were generated from the RELENG_5_2
>branch, which is a security branch that currently gets you
>5.2.1-RELEASE-p9.  In effect, 5.2.1-RELEASE is just another patchset
>against the RELENG_5_2 branch, except on a rather larger scale and
>fixing more significant problems than most patches.
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
>
>[1] In principal.  In practice a tag can be 'slid' to account for last
>minute changes, but that's unusual and only tends to happen quite soon
>after the tag is laid down.
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Thanks for the clarification! CVS as a concept is much like women - just 
when I think I've got it figured out, I am proven otherwise. Oh, well. ;-)

-Henrik W Lund