On Aug 1, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
If you want to stay as close as possible to 6.2-RELEASE but also include the fixes that the security officer deems important enough to release widely, use the tag RELENG_6_2 (usually in your supfile for cvsup or csup). If you want the latest code for 6-stable, which will eventually become 6.3-RELEASE, use just RELENG_6.
Thank you. I wasn't clear in my original message. I meant to talk about RELENG_6_2 which is what I meant when I said "6.2 Release with patches". But I fully acknowledge that while I've used RCS for ages, I still don't fully grok branches and trunks (or HEADs in CVS), so I do state things badly and can always use the reminder of how things work.
Anyway, I was disappointed that the BIND fix didn't make it into RELENG_6_2.
But ...
When it comes to BIND stuff in particular, I always update the ports first, so anyone with a mission critical DNS operation can get fixes ASAP. There is even an option in the port to overwrite the base BIND if you so desire.
Ah-ha. That makes a big difference. OK. If I'm going to expose my name server to the big bad world while tracking RELENG_N_M ("release with patches") I'll use bind from ports.
Are there other things in /usr/src/contrib that follow this pattern?
hth,
Yes, it helps a great deal. Thank you very much for your work on this and your patience with me.
-j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
