Re: RELENG_7 versus RELENG_7_0, latter is newer?
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:16:04PM +, Chris wrote: I expected RELENG_7 to have newer files than RELENG_7_0 as the latter tracks a release whilst the former tracks CURRENT/STABLE whichever it currently is. However I noticed 2 things. 1 - RELENG_7_0 in newvers.sh shows 7.0-RELEASE whilst RELENG_7 shows PRERELEASE. Yes, it is supposed to be that way. RELENG_7 will continue to show -PRERELEASE until after 7.0-RELEASE is out, at which point it will switch to show -STABLE. 2 - RELENG_7_0 has higher version numbers than RELENG_7 on the src files and config files for mergemaster. Considering that almost all changes to RELENG_7_0 are first applied to RELENG_7 before being applied to the (newer) RELENG_7_0 branch this is not surprising. Note also that the revision numbers that CVS assigns to each revision of a file depends heavily on which branch the file comes from, and which revision that branch is derived from. Higher number does not necessarily imply newer file. Given this information is it the case RELENG_7 has simply stopped been updated? possibly even a fault on the cvsup servers I have been using. Unlikely. /usr/src/UPDATING both have the 7.0-RELEASE line however. example below RELENG_7_0 FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/sysinstall.h,v 1.274.4.1 RELENG_7 FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/sysinstall.h,v 1.274.2.1 Looks just fine to me. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RELENG_7 versus RELENG_7_0, latter is newer?
1 - RELENG_7_0 in newvers.sh shows 7.0-RELEASE whilst RELENG_7 shows PRERELEASE. Yes, it is supposed to be that way. RELENG_7 will continue to show -PRERELEASE until after 7.0-RELEASE is out, at which point it will switch to show -STABLE. That is my point the 7.0 branch is marked as RELEASE not RC2 or RC3, after reboot I see this. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Since the stable brance is typically marked as stable after release I then cvsupped the 7 stable branch assuming I would see stable but I didnt, however like you just said they havent officially released freebsd7 yet so I then assumed its because they havent had time to tag it yet. But then... 2 - RELENG_7_0 has higher version numbers than RELENG_7 on the src files and config files for mergemaster. Considering that almost all changes to RELENG_7_0 are first applied to RELENG_7 before being applied to the (newer) RELENG_7_0 branch this is not surprising. Note also that the revision numbers that CVS assigns to each revision of a file depends heavily on which branch the file comes from, and which revision that branch is derived from. Higher number does not necessarily imply newer file. True but some files also had newer timestamps and why would they downgrade a version number on tons of files? I am talking 100s of files not 1 or 2. Given this information is it the case RELENG_7 has simply stopped been updated? possibly even a fault on the cvsup servers I have been using. Unlikely. This is the first time I have seen this, eg. on FreeBSD 6 branch if I cvsupped to STABLE from 6.3 RELEASE at the time of release there would likely be next to no files that it fetches as 6.3 RELEASE just comes from that STABLE branch at that point in time, if files are different STABLE branch would be newer as RELEASE stays still. Maybe it is typical just first time I have seen this. :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RELENG_7 versus RELENG_7_0, latter is newer?
On 24/02/2008, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it over and understand what you saying now, they branched off 7.0R at the start of the release process and from that point development between that and the stable branch wont necessarily be synched. My only wonder left now is that is 7.0 now in release code as its tagged as such. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RELENG_7 versus RELENG_7_0, latter is newer?
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:10:04AM +, Chris wrote: On 24/02/2008, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it over and understand what you saying now, they branched off 7.0R at the start of the release process and from that point development between that and the stable branch wont necessarily be synched. My only wonder left now is that is 7.0 now in release code as its tagged as such. It is not officially released until the official announcement has gone out. That the release has been tagged does constitute such an announcment and there could still be some last-minute changes made before the relase is made (with the tag being moved forward in such a case.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
