On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:33:23AM -0500, Michael Gass wrote: > Just installed 7.2-release in an old Pavilion 4455 (PII, 256M) > and it runs great. Csuped src and ports and rebuilt world and > generic kernel for 7.2-stable and that went well.
> My question is why are the files in /etc in 7.2-stable older > versions (generally) than in 7.2-release? I do not just mean > older by date, but older versions of the files - like many of > the config files for sendmail or the net. Why is stable using > older versions of these files than release? > Mostly I did not let mergemaster install the files from the build > because they were so much older than the original release versions. > Again, why are the files for stable so much older? This is because of a weakness in the svn-to-cvs exporter. Formerly, only CVS was used and tagging a release did not require a commit. So right after a release, both the release and -stable would have the same revision numbers. With Subversion, tagging a release requires a commit. The CVS exporter keeps this commit, so all files will have a changed CVS Id. This looks newer, until/unless the file is changed on -stable again. To cope with this, it's best to use mergemaster's -F or -U options. This question has been asked before. -- Jilles Tjoelker _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
