On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: AW> you can likely deduce some answers from: AW> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/schedule.html AW> AW> 4.7-PRERELEASE is a tag marking what the 4.7 release will be all about. AW> then, 4.7-RC, 4.7-RC2, 4.7-RC3 (RC = release candidate) are snapshots AW> that grow closer and closer to what the RE team feels comfortable AW> calling 4.7-RELEASE.
Yeah, this is true, except the following... AW> so, as you track RELENG_4, you will obtain each tag point sequentially. AW> if you cvsup your sources every day, you will know when RC2 is available AW> because "uname -a" will show 4.7-RC2. Which is not. uname of the system is determined by /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.h; -RC[n] are never been CVS tags, they are specifically set on machines which build release candidates. Summarizing: if you follow sources via cvs/cvsup/other way, you'd never got -RCn. You got, for last month, 4.6-STABLE, then 4.7-PRERELEASE, then 4.7-RC (without numbers), then, finally, 4.7-STABLE. However, you'd *never* got 4.7-RELEASE, because this specific tag will be set on a security branch named RELENG_4_7 (which is created shortly before actual release). Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
