On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:41 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Up to now, when I'm installing my FreeBSD boxes I download the latest RELEASE > iso-image for my platform. These days I used 7.0-RELEASE. For security fixes > I use the provided patches as mentioned in the security advisories. > > Since a long time I'm asking myself the following questions and I don't find > answers in the handbook (e.g. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html) or > other ressources: > > 1. Some SA's say that the a bug is corrected in a particular RELENG or > RELEASE or a patched RELEASE. For example FreeBSD-SA-08:05.openssh states > that >>RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p1<<. But where can I get a -p1??? I've never > seen iso-images for a x.y-RELEASE-pnn. Is this the time where I need to build > a release (as iso-image) by myself? If so, what branch-tag do I need to get > 7.0-RELEASE-p1? > > 2. I understood that there are two different development branches, >>HEAD aka > CURRENT<< and >>STABLE<<. I avoid using these branches because I'm not a > developer. Thats the reason why I only want to use RELEASES. But what the > hell is a "RELENG"??? Why are these things not called 7.0-CURRENT or > 7.0-STABLE and so on (and 7.0-RELEASE for me)? Maybe I've a problem to > understand this because I'm not really familar with CVSup. > > 3. I played around with jails these days and I had my first contact with > "make world". Despite the inconsistencies in the handbook where the > jail-chapter instructs to use "make world" and the rebuilding world part > warns explicitly and proposes "make buildworld" (but the Makefile tells me > that the target >>world<< stands for "buildworld + installworld, no kernel" > which seems okay?!), does it make sense to use "make buildworld" also when > I'm not updating to another RELEASE? As it compiles everything on my machine > (it autodetects my CPU and features?!) I guess the system should perform > better?! Is it possible or common to update to the latest source tree (where > latest means I want to stay at the current RELEASE but want to have all > patches like 7.0-RELEASE-p1)? Or results an updating process of the source > tree always in a switch to STABLE or CURRENT (depending on the branch tag in > CVSup config?)? > > Many thanks in advance to everyone who puts me in the right direction. Before > posting to the list I read some documents (mainly the handbook), but maybe I > missed some small but important sentences. Thanks! > > cheers, > Ede >
There are two branches of FreeBSD. The STABLE branch, and the CURRENT branch. The CURRENT branch is like the "alpha". It has the most-recent code changes, and it is not very stable. The STABLE branch is more stable, but it is still considered a development branch. Every so often, the STABLE branch is considered stable enough to make a new release version. All the RELEASE is, is a snapshot of the code at a specific time. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html ^ That page explains all the RELENG tags, in terms of branches and releases. For information on how to use CSup/CVSup, read this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
