base source: release vs releng

Baho Utot baho-utot at columbus.rr.com
Sun Sep 18 00:12:30 UTC 2016


On 09/17/16 19:50, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:45:44 -0400, Baho Utot wrote:
>> As I understand this:
>>
>> The difference between release and releng is that releng gets security
>> fixes and "back ports/fixes" and release does not?
>>
>> Or have I completely missed the boat and I am all wet?
> The term "releng" means "release engineering" and is something like
> a word for "the whole release process", the task of creating a release
> of the OS, in which there are basically three levels:
>
> RELEASE - this is the release which gets published electronically
> 	and on optical media
>
> RELEASE-pX - this is a RELEASE where security updates have been
> 	added to, indicated by patchlevel X
>
> STABLE - this is the stable development branch, i. e. the branch
> 	in which ABIs and APIs are stable, and which usually does
> 	compile and run; typcally from this branch, security updates
> 	are provided for RELEASE
>
> CURRENT or HEAD - this is the experimental development branch, the
> 	place where testing happens, so it isn't _guaranteed_ to
> 	compile and run properly; it's often in a "state of flow",
> 	i. e. doesn't compile now, wait 2 hours, update sources,
> 	recompile, works; from this branch, features are put into
> 	production development (appearing in STABLE) or discarded
> 	(which also _may_ happen)
>
> You can find more information here:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/releng/
>
>
Ok I am still confused

svn.freebsd.org has for example ( if I got this correct )

base/head    - CURRENT-12
base/stable/11    - STABLE-11
base/releng/10.1    - ?
base/release/10.1.0    - ?

Which one would have  FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p35 or later?

I got the part on how to use svnlite to fetch the source, I just don't 
know which one is what

I want to update

  uname -a FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p35 #0 net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  
amd64

Thanks





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