From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 16 0:53:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web1608.mail.yahoo.com (web1608.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A57137B719 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:53:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 16081 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Mar 2001 08:53:50 -0000 Message-ID: <20010316085350.16080.qmail@web1608.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [210.50.57.165] by web1608.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:53:50 PST Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:53:50 -0800 (PST) From: Haikal Saadh Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <010b01c0adbc$eb1654a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > What is a BETA system? Is it similiar to CURRENT? > > Please search through the mailing list archives > before asking questions. > This has been answered many times over the last two > weeks. > > 4.2-STABLE became 4.3-BETA when the code was frozen, > prior to becoming > 4.3-RELEASE. > Oooh...as a newbie, I've been bitten twice by this...CVSUPing hoping the get the latest STABLE, but get a BETA (4.1.1, and now 4.3)... I always thought I had made an error in my supfiles, and since nothing major seemed to have broke, just ignored it. Perhaps it would be a good idea to make it so that either: - UPDATING mentions that it's a beta you have, OR - not put BETAs into the STABLE branch? Just a newbie's opinion. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message