Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:12:20 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Still not sure about STABLE and CURRENT Message-ID: <F1675CRTYBK1CRwFRft00000496@hotmail.com>
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I'm not sure what was said earlier in this thread, but for a 24/7 server, you probably shouldn't use -stable and should definitely avoid -current. From the handbook: "Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and with the general assumption that they have first gone into FreeBSD-CURRENT first for testing. This is still a development branch, however, and this means that at any given time, the sources for FreeBSD-STABLE may or may not be suitable for any particular purpose." and: "FreeBSD-CURRENT is the latest working sources for FreeBSD. This includes work in progress, experimental changes, and transitional mechanisms that might or might not be present in the next official release of the software. While many FreeBSD developers compile the FreeBSD-CURRENT source code daily, there are periods of time when the sources are not buildable. These problems are resolved as expeditiously as possible, but whether or not FreeBSD-CURRENT brings disaster or greatly desired functionality can be a matter of which exact moment you grabbed the source code in!" In general, I would stick with point releases (4.4, 4.5) and, if any bugs are found that effect you, patch them specifically. You /can/ go with -stable if you want, which would give you all of the latest patches and enhancements that are not bleeding edge, but I have found that every once-in-a-while it fails to build for me, though after it builds I have never had a stability problem. (This is FreeBSD, after all) Note that, at least for me, -stable tends to have tons of broken ports. This may be my fault though, as has been the case a few times in the past. >If I have a production server that needs to be up 100% of the time what >do I use, current or stable. If it is stable then why when I compile my >kernel with the stable source do it I get errors and with the current >source everything seems to work well. If you do answer this question >would you please explain why you answered the way you did. Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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