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Building a Unix Server
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Confusion over the CVS tags |
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2005-02-19 13:26:13 |
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jim58
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I also have been confused by the CVS version tags for FreeBSD. Richard Bejtlich's
comment about Dru's use of the wrong tag was a little too modest.
Check out his excellent article about keeping the OS up to date at:
http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_up-to-date.html
In it you'll find the following (which is the best explanation I've seen:
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The following examples begin with 5.3 RELEASE, the most recently published version of FreeBSD:
RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE is FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE, just as you might get on CD.
RELENG_5_3 is the "security" branch for 5.3, which is FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE with patches for security advisories and critical fixes applied.
RELENG_5 is the development line of the FreeBSD 5 tree, also known as 5-STABLE
. ("dot"), also known as HEAD, is the development line of the next version of FreeBSD, 6.0, also known as 6-CURRENT or simply CURRENT
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