Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:17:21 +1100 From: Rob B <robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> To: "David Beukes" <dbm@5fm.za.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable vs Release vs Current Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20040219081257.022e5cc8@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <web-238362961@mail01.infosat.net> References: <web-238362961@mail01.infosat.net>
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At 10:35 PM 18/02/2004, 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?). 4.4-RELEASE is just 4.4-STABLE at one particular point in time >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? -STABLE becomes -RELEASE when the source tree is tagged with -RELEASE >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? That all depends if you want to follow -RELEASE plus security fixes, or if you want a (slowly) moving target that is -STABLE >And where do security patches fit into this story? See above >Any info would be helpful. I suggest re-reading the Handbook, the section on Stable vs Current (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html) is most pertinant. Cheers, Rob -- "Beer. Now there's a temporary solution." - Homer Simpson This is random quote 9 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5
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