Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:57:03 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Pongthep Kulkrisada <ptkrisada@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd Mailing <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: -STABLE vs security branches, was: Flash viewer for FBSD Message-ID: <12D27C0C-70FE-4640-9B2A-4EA98CC72859@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20100306065736.GA2237@gmail.com> References: <20100305051415.GA1847@gmail.com> <20100305065837.660d3ebd.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100305110049.GA10715@gmail.com> <BLU0-SMTP204A23AA4CAF80798AA138DC380@phx.gbl> <20100305161210.GA46349@gmail.com> <d74eb87c1003050842q29e69eb9k561517f077e7bb1f@mail.gmail.com> <20100305171233.GB1500@gmail.com> <d74eb87c1003050954x2d537661w48d63ba1b350de94@mail.gmail.com> <20100306065736.GA2237@gmail.com>
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On Mar 6, 2010, at 1:57 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: >> So your system is approx. 4 months old, despite you cvsup-ping? > > I don't know what do you mean. > Normally, FBSD issues new STABLE RELEASE once a year (approx). > Whenever new release or new branch is available, > I shall do either wget iso images, or cvsup/csup and buildworld. > The time between RELEASEs, there are patches. > But FBSD teams stated that those patches are not well tested > comparing to RELEASE. > So I do not update the system until new STABLE RELEASE is available > again. Things going into -CURRENT may not be "well tested", but anything being merged back to -STABLE ought to be. Humans make mistakes, but I can't recall more than two or maybe three significant issues over a decade tracking -STABLE, and these were fixed in a matter of hours. If you do care about this level of precision, you should be building to a test platform and then running sanity checks for whatever your machines do before upgrading production boxes, anyway. Beyond that, however, you ought to consider tracking the security branch, ie, RELENG_8_0, rather than 8-STABLE aka RELENG_8, as the former does include recommended changes like security bugfixes, but avoids merging in anything which has not been "well tested". Regards, -- -Chuck
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