David Southwell wrote: > I am confused about the usage of the tag for src. > > I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices: > > _7_BP > _7_2_BP > _7_2_0_RELEASE > _7_2 > > But could not find anything that told me where -p2 fits into this!! > > > # uname -a > > 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 24 00:14:35 UTC 2009 > r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > To synchronize src do I use: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_2 > will this automatically track the latest version in 7_2 and therefore > keep track with 7.2-RELEASE-p2 or later?? > Yes. RELENG_7_2 is the security patched update of Release. The -p2 means there have been two security patches applied to the source code. The actual release (RELENG_7_2_0_RELEASE) is static and will never change. The only thing that changes with _7_2 is the addition/inclusion of the patches you see in the security announcements.
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