Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:44:22 -0500 (EST) From: Mike <sturdee@mikesweb.com> To: David Beukes <dbm@5fm.za.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable vs Release vs Current Message-ID: <20040218154232.A279@saturn.mikesweb.com> In-Reply-To: <web-238362961@mail01.infosat.net> References: <web-238362961@mail01.infosat.net>
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FreeBSD-CURRENT vs. FreeBSD-STABLE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html Release Documentation: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.html That should clear it up for you. -Mike On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, David Beukes wrote: > Hi, > > Have been using FreeBSD for about a year now but haven't > understood or found a definitive answer to the > versions/branches. Would appreciate it if someone could > shed some light; a bit of history follows: > > I installed 1st FreeBSD system from 4.4 (the only cds I > could get my hands on). By the time I started understanding > what I was doing, 4.8 was out. So I CVSup'd the source and > did the whole make buildworld/installworld kernel thing. > And I was running 4.8... Question here is, was I running > 4.4 release? or 4.4 stable? when did 4.8 become stable (are > you starting to catch my drift?). > > Then in December 2003 (about a month after 4.9 was > announced), I downloaded ISOs for 4.9 and reinstalled from > scratch. Same questions as before, am I running 4.9 stable? > release? When did release become stable? > > Am now running 4.9 and started cvsupping the source. my > supfile has this line in it: default release=cvs > tag=RELENG_4_9. Am I wasting my time? Should it rather read > RELENG_4? If so, why? > > And where do security patches fit into this story? > > Any info would be helpful. > > Thanks, > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -------------------------------------- "Hard Work Often Pays Off After Time, but Laziness Always Pays Off Now."
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