From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 8:47:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9AB37B40A for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:47:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA18811; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:57:00 +0200 Message-ID: <3BA0D51F.1060305@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:47:43 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010905 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Kwan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stable vs. Release References: <1000393832.3ba0cc6869af3@www.hboss.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Al Kwan wrote: >Hello everyone, > >All this talk about 4.4-Release, 4.3-Release, 4.2-Stable has got me wondering. >[snip] > >So I'm curious to get your opinions on FBSD and "production-only" servers. What >version # and stable/release do you tend to use? > Monitoring the stable mailiong list gives a rough idea of the state the tree is in at any time. If you do not have the time to do that, I'd recommend staying at releases. Besides that, I usually cvsup to the most recent stable tree I can get (occasionally setting the date parameter for cvsup to go back a few days, just to avoid a bug of course). After building that version, the machine gets configured and tested extensively. If it does it's job, it goes into production and will never be touched again (except for security patches) until it's out of production again. To do this, you need a spare machine to play with until it gets into production. The just replaced production box now becomes the play box. Just my EUR.02 -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message