Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

[Chris Maness]

Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 13:59, Chris Hill wrote:
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>> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, chris at chrismaness.com wrote:
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>>> Is my supfile correct to track security for freebsd-6.0?
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>>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
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>> As I understand it, that tag will get you the latest released version
>> of 6.x. So today it would apply security and bugfix updates for 6.0,
>> but after 6.1 comes out you would get 6.1, and so on. If you want to
>> track 6.0 specifically, use RELENG_6_0. Right now there is no
>> difference between RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_0, but later there will be.
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>> As everyone else has said, see the Handbook for definitive answers.
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>> HTH.
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>> --
>> Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
>> **                     [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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> This is not quite correct. "tag=RELENG_6" will give you the src for 
> 6-STABLE, which is to say "FreeBSD 6.1 PRELEASE", or maybe its 
> RELEASECANDIDATE now. tag=RELENG_6_0 will get you the sources for the 
> 6.0 release branch, used only for security and other critical fixes. So 
> yes, there is a difference between the two tags.
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> Don
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Yep, that's what I figured out by trial and error (sometimes the best 
way to learn).