From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 2 03:58:35 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B73316A41F for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 03:58:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F20513C48A for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 03:58:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so364812fka for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:58:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=seI6PskIE3QUWVg+8mEUhhwdxV3bBq5cZQ50KRob3Gu2oxc1DOQPdT1HrFasgV/Q9NntuWgZAtM35odPX2H4PJkcEPk5BEbFkwuxQMwOU5rdmnVx2qxgvDo2dEYCexwNlb3eUFjVHs8FCOBK/yV17745tsSII3yxx8BKplYKA9U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DXPIoboV2/YJ4xl31gZ1b2WXho4kTy/Ry2L+MzZuBhMN2kYSjO9RJJ0qf5+qjznSXRHVTx1AKWczPjZDPYC3VWmeTIDiHMx4UNn76RTnabzzCXkItdebcRmnaafsmLnX8D847PnI1JrJpcaPP4cs2zKc3glqh2MxxUPdMXX71kU= Received: by 10.82.100.1 with SMTP id x1mr1713770bub.1186027113627; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.5 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 20:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 22:58:33 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Peter Boosten" In-Reply-To: <46B1518C.3060206@boosten.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46B1518C.3060206@boosten.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Confused about version X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:58:35 -0000 On 01/08/07, Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > What should I be running when updating my sources? RELENG_6 or > RELENG_6_2? Or is there no difference? Short answer: What do you want to do? Slightly longer: RELENG_6 is the stable testing branch that will become 6.3 (soonest). RELENG_6_2 is the security branch of 6.2. If you want to just use FreeBSD, RELENG_6_2 is what you want. You can upgrade to 6_3 when it is released, probably without difficulty. If you want to help test, or are curious to watch the whole release process, or are just dying for some feature in -stable, RELENG_6 is probably what you want. Security branches are more or less (although in no legal way) guaranteed to work (for some definition of work), -stable and -current much less so. > > When running RELENG_6, how often would I have to make buildworld? > As often as you want, and as often as you check out the code. A couple of times a day or once a month. And, though you didn't ask, if you run RELENG_6_2, you'll want to rebuild (at least the pertinent bits) when there is a security notice which affects you. -- --