From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 06:07:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64DA816A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:07:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142D343D66 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:07:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20041214060700i92002abv6e>; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:07:00 +0000 Message-ID: <41BE8303.5060401@nbritton.org> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:06:59 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041203) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam References: <003b01c4e19c$c1a54c80$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> In-Reply-To: <003b01c4e19c$c1a54c80$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_5 vs. RELENG_5_3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:07:01 -0000 Adam wrote: >So if I cvsup with RELENG_5, and I'm currently running version 5.3, will I'll be getting the new code that will eventually become FreeBSD 5.4? > >If I update with RELENG_5_3, and I'm currently running version 5.3, will I just get critical updates and security fixes for FreeBSD 5.3? > >Thanks > > > Yes, everything you said is correct. If you cvsup with RELENG_6 you will be tracking -CURRENT (aka HEAD), NEVER! a good idea for a newbie. If you cvsup with RELENG_5 you will be tracking -STABLE, -STABLE does NOT imply the code is "Stable", only that there won't be radical changes to the code, that is what -CURRENT is for, I would not recommend tracking this for 5.x until it matures a bit more, maybe after 5.4 or 5.5-RELEASE and even after it stabilizes tracking -STABLE is not recommend for "production systems", Think of it as "Beta" software. If you cvsup with RELENG_5_3 you will be tracking the -RELEASE branch for that -RELEASE, this will get you critical and security updates, this is what you want. Also some -RELEASE branches are designated as errata fix branches. Then when 5.4 is released you would change it to RELENG_5_4 and cvsup to 5.4. See here for more about Release Engineering: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html