Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:57:29 +0100 From: "Johan Hendriks" <Johan@double-l.nl> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD: diff between RELEASE and STABLE Message-ID: <DCEE01466A8BC541AFF5B671084EF456C04E@doublel01.double-l.lokaal>
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Do search on www.bsdforums.org=20 This is discussed there many times=20 Well I did a search there for you (I am in a good mood) this gets asked a lot... CURRENT - is the most up to date cutting edge version. It should only be used by those working on BSD or those just interesed in playing around. It should never be used for any type of production environment. STABLE - is where they make releases from. It runs and complies correctly, most of the time. It's usually "stable" enough to run on home machines and to do testing but once again it shouldn't be used for production envirionments though. RELEASE - is a snapshot in time of stable. Right before a new version comes out they freeze the stable code, do cleanup, fix emergency bugs, then build the ISO images. This is the version you want for production envirionments. once you install from a RELEASE you can then buildworld of any updated verison you want from the sourcecode. You use a program called cvsup that downloads the code. you can tell cvsup what version to go get. There's a whole chapter in the handbook on this so read up. Personally i stay away from the stable/current lines. Basically once I install a release every once in a while i do updates only of the current release line. For example right now I'm running the code version called RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE which is the 4.8 release, the same as the ISOs you can download.=20 Just today infact I updated the code to RELENG_4_8 which is still part of the 4.8 line but includes only security updates, critical fixes, etc. I'll spend all day rebuilding the world, compiling a custom kernel, and installing this newest version. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: stormjumper [mailto:stormjumper@myrealbox.com]=20 Verzonden: donderdag 13 november 2003 14:48 Aan: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Onderwerp: FreeBSD: diff between RELEASE and STABLE hi, i'm slightly confused by the use of the terms RELEASE and STABLE. specifically, i refer to section/chapter 2 at the FreeBSD Early Adopter's Guide at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html where it states that "At the moment, only one STABLE branch is under active development; this branch is referred to as ``4-STABLE'', and all of the FreeBSD 4.X releases were based on it." yet 4.9 is the production release, and is referred to as a release at http://www.freebsd.org can anyone explain the two terms in a less confusing way? also, is 4.9 the stable release or not? thanks _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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