Subject: Re: Kernel cvs question
To: Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/26/2002 15:22:39
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Lars Hecking wrote:
> Just a quick question: which cvs branch should I track to get all the
> relevant bugfixes and security updates for 1.5.2? I thought it was
> netbsd-1-5-PATCH002, but apparently not.
>
> (Not quite) following NetBSD Security Advisory 2002-001, I updated the
> complete kernel sources, not only the listed files, from netbsd-1-5, and
> I was kindof suprised that after the next reboot I was running a netbsd
> 1.5.3_alpha kernel :-)
netbsd-1-5 is the correct branch, netbsd-1-5-PATCH002 is just a tag on
that branch for the 1.5.2 release. The kernel post-1.5.2 on that
netbsd-1-5 branch is indeed versioned 1.5.3_ALPHA.
- Hubert
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