names of supfiles in /usr/share/examples/cvsup

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 7:36 PM +0100 12/6/04, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
>El Lunes, 6 de Diciembre de 2004 08:39, Rob escribió:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  For 5.3 in /usr/share/examples/cvsup, there's:
>>
>>    stable-supfile   : for FreeBSD-stable
>>    standard-supfile : for FreeBSD-current
>>
>>  I find this naming rather confusing. Why "stable" refers to STABLE,
>>  but "standard" refers to CURRENT ?
>>
>>  This causes unnecessary confusion. Why not the following name
>>  convention:
>>
>>    release-supfile  : for FreeBSD-RELEASE
>
>Better security-supfile.  There is just one release, things like
>RELENG_5_3 are security branchs, not release branchs.

Let me add to the pain by noting that RELENG_5_3 is not a security
branch (the way we used to have security branches).  It is now
called an "errata branch", and it may see some updates which are
not for security issues.  Not many, and only "really really safe"
ones, but it is more than just security fixes...

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