From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 12:48:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16665 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:48:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16650 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:47:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01497; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:47:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:47:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ross Potts cc: Jonathan Lemon , FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -RELEASE and -STABLE In-Reply-To: <9802111232.ZM8351@unknown.zmail.host> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Ross Potts wrote: > > Periodically, the code in -stable is put on a CD, at which time > >it is called a -release. As you mentioned above, -release tends to need > >patches, simply because > > Oh, I think I get it now. -RELEASE is a result of all the -STABLE versions to > a certain time period. > > Is that a correct assumption? More or less. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message