What is 5.4 p2 ?

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jun 12, 2005, at 12:16 AM, Paul Dufresne wrote:

>
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:46:51 -1000, "Robert Marella"
> <rmarella at gmail.com> said:
>
>> Paul Dufresne wrote:
>>
>>>> and more curious. I updated one of my systems to 5.4 p2 today
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Being a newcomer to FreeBSD, I understand about Release version,
>>> STABLE version and CURRENT one. But I don't understand this
>>> p2 you are refering to.
>>> I could guess it means point release 2, so I checked:
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
>>> But files seems to be for 5.4-RELEASe still from May 8.
>>>
>>> So what is 5.4 p2 ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> robert at p4:~> uname -a
>> FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 5.4-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2  
>> #1: Fri
>> Jun 10 11:45:43 HST 2005
>> root at p4.konav201.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/P4-5_4REL  i386
>>
>> It is my understanding that the p# stands for the second patch to 5.4
>> Release. Correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>
> Hum, let me reformulate this in my own words, to see if I
> understand. You are running 5-STABLE, and this is the second
> time 5-STABLE was generated from RELENG_5 branch since 5.4
> was released.
> (I did looked at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html
> to write this)

Almost.  This is the second patch update to RELENG_5_4 (since it is  
5.4-RELEASE-p2 and not 5.4-STABLE-p2)

5.4-RELEASE gets updated with important security and bug fixes but  
not everything that goes into -STABLE.

That is how I understand it.

Chad



>
> Ok, fine, I was thinking that maybe there was some kind
> of 5.4.2 release, but no, there will be no official release
> to 5.4 until 5.5.
>
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