From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 06:42:17 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 0223716A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:42:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from safeco.hostingservice.net (safeco.hostingservice.net [209.150.128.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A94143D49 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:42:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adam@jamradar.com) Received: from PANASONIULSWMR (c-67-176-199-73.client.comcast.net [67.176.199.73])iBE6f8g08783; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:41:08 -0600 Message-ID: <008d01c4e1a7$e3b8e5b0$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> From: "Adam" To: "Nikolas Britton" References: <003b01c4e19c$c1a54c80$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> <41BE8303.5060401@nbritton.org> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:41:01 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 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 06:42:17 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Adam" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:06 AM Subject: Re: RELENG_5 vs. RELENG_5_3 > 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 With FreeBSD I'm making a webserver (with PHP, Apache, PostgreSQL) for my pesonal websites and I want it to be "stable" (as in the sense that it's reliable). Is FreeBSD 5.3 tracking RELENG_5_3 a good choice for this? Or should I go to an earlier version? Thanks,