Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:54:01 -0700 From: "Greg J." <xcas@cox.net> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on CVS Branches Message-ID: <20030828065401.6c145216.xcas@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3F4E0715.3040402@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <3F4B4633.1010807@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030826045512.N503@njamn8or.no-ip.org> <3F4E0715.3040402@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:43:49 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote: > Is RELENG_4 to be considered stable? I.e. can i use it for production? > > Also i am still a bit unsure, what CURRENT, RELEASE and STABLE mean. > From other OS's, i know that "Release" means "for production use". > But 5.x-RELEASE is said to be not for production. > Is STABLE more stable than RELEASE? > > Thanks for any insight > > Heinrich -STABLE = 4.x -CURRENT = 5.x -RELEASE = Snapshot of STABLE/CURRENT RELENG_4 is the development branch of -STABLE & it can be broken from time to time (rarely, but still).. so you wouldn't want to use that for production use. For production.. it's best to use a -RELEASE from the -STABLE branch. You'd want RELENG_4_8 - which is 4.8-RELEASE + bug/security fixes. Hopefully that makes some kinda sense. :D
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