From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 2 04:11:53 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 0D31416A418 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:11:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl [213.51.103.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AB813C461 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:11:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (localhost.egypt.nl [127.0.0.1]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A74D3988E for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 06:11:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix, from userid 501) id 30F1C39885; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 06:11:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on ra.egypt.nl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, AWL autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9523A39877 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 06:11:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46B15983.7080305@boosten.org> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:11:47 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <46B1518C.3060206@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000763-1, 08/01/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP 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 04:11:53 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > 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. > Thanks to all: very clear answer. I'll stick to 6_2 then. Greetz, Peter - -- http://www.boosten.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGsVmCrvsez6l/SvARAuXKAJ4vQODQhBEG9HdHPA3coOzPttO8qgCfQfg1 HF8BkBdOALFWNF4XvrH/5Ao= =ILce -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----