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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!csulb.edu!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 03:32:11 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 35 Message-ID: <33802C2B.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <337A4307.3BF9@vertexcomm.com> <01bc60d8$3ffed900$a299adcf@argus.axxis.com> <337B054B.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> <EAC69M.IqC@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41139 Louis Epstein wrote: > Are there *significant* differences between 2.1.5 and 2.1.7.1? > 2.1.6,2.1.7,and 2.1.7.1 have each been announced as bugfix releases. Yes, heaps. Enumerating them would take more time than I've got, so the CVS tree is, as usual, Your Friend when it comes to determining just what's changed between any two releases. Assuming that you had a local copy of the CVS repository on hand (see 16.3 of the FreeBSD Handbook for info on how to obtain such a thing), you could answer this question for yourself by doing: setenv CVSROOT /where/your/CVS/repository/is/ cvs rdiff -rRELENG_2_1_5_RELEASE -rRELENG_2_1_7_1_RELEASE src >& diff-city.txt Whenever the release engineer (that's me!) does a release, he tags it with a tag starting with the string ``RELENG_'' to signify that it was a release-engineer's tag, the rest depending on the release name being produced and with all `-' characters changed to `_'s. Using that simple(?) formula, it's therefore easy to derive what a given release's tag is going to look like. If you still prefer to see a list of such tags, it's also easy enough to do just by saying: cd /usr/src # assuming this is checked out of CVS cvs log Makefile # Gives you a list of all tags on a # well-known file. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.