Some /etc files seem out of date in RELENG_8 compared to RELENG_8_1

[Lowell Gilbert]

Geoff Roberts <geoff at apro.com.au> writes:

> I was just doing and update to 8-PRERELEASE from 8.1 by using the
> RELENG_8 tag in cvsup.
>
> When I used mergemaster to update /etc, there were a number of files
> being merged into /etc that are older revisions than those I had in
> 8.1.
>
> You can check this for example by comparing the revision numbers at
> the following URLS.
>
> Compare say syslog.conf (there are a whole list of other files that
> are out of date).
>
> In 8.1 it has a revision of 1.30.2.1.4.1 - 5 months old
>
> In 8.X it has a revision of 1.30.2.1 - 16 months old
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/?only_with_tag=RELENG_8_1
>
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/?only_with_tag=RELENG_8
>
> Shouldn't RELENG_8 have all the changes that went into RELENG_8_1 as
> FreeBSD moves to 8.2?

It does.  The files are identical, except for the version stamp.