From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 18 13:54:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85CD16A47C for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:54:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.com) Received: from zeus.int.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE4443D45 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:54:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.int.dfwlp.com (athena.int.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by zeus.int.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5IDsUpb045716 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:54:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:54:27 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606180854.27889.jhorne@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on zeus.int.dfwlp.com Subject: deployment considerations between STABLE and RELENG X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:54:31 -0000 its been a while since i have come to the point where i can cvsup and buildworld my systems without making any mistakes. but, at this point, so far, i only buildworld up to STABLE. i do have one dev system that yesterday, i finally did a buildworld to RELENG. as i understand it, STABLE contains all security/bug fixes, as well as all enhancements to other applications as they have been developed. and that RELENG contains only security and bugfixes. have i gathered my information correctly? im interested in polling the users of this list (who frequently buildworld on their systems), what situations (deployments) STABLE is for, and the same for RELENG. cheers, jonathan