cvs tag usage

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:43 PM, David Southwell<david at vizion2000.net> wrote:
> I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
>
> I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices:
>
> _7_BP
> _7_2_BP

BP ?

> _7_2_0_RELEASE

Should be RELENG.  Don't blindly follow how-tos.

> _7_2
>
> But could not find anything that told me where -p2 fits into this!!
>

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

>
> # uname -a
>
> 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 24 00:14:35 UTC 2009
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> To synchronize src do I use:
>
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_2
> will this automatically track the latest version in 7_2  and therefore keep
> track with 7.2-RELEASE-p2 or later??
>
> or
> do I need to use something like:
>
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_2-p2
>

No.  Read the link I posted above.

> Where can I find some explanation on this?
>
> Thanks in advance
>



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Glen Barber