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
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