Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:40:14 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on CVS Branches Message-ID: <3F4F1F7E.6020609@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20030828141020.GC21213@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <3F4B4633.1010807@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030826045512.N503@njamn8or.no-ip.org> <3F4E0715.3040402@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030828141020.GC21213@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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Simon Barner wrote: >>Is RELENG_4 to be considered stable? I.e. can i use it for production? > > > Well, that depends. At the moment, -stable has (or had) some stability problems > since some enhancements for huge memory systems (> 4gb) where merged > from -current). > > I think the best for production system is the latest security branch, > i.e. RELENG_4_8 which is the latest release (4.8-RELEASE) + all the > security fixes that have been released so far. -stable aka. RELENG_4 > contains those fixes + other bug fixes + feature enhancements, that > might cause problems once in a while. > > >>Also i am still a bit unsure, what CURRENT, RELEASE and STABLE mean. >>From other OS's, i know that "Release" means "for production use". >>But 5.x-RELEASE is said to be not for production. > > > The FreeBSD 5.x releases were made in order to provide a solid test > basis for the very latest branch of FreeBSD. Although it runs very > stable for a lot of people, more conservative users that do not need any > of the new features in FreeBSD 5.x are recommended stay with FreeBSD 4.x > at the present. > > Regards, > Simon Thank you. Yet another question: I would like to update my source tree automatically each night. However the cvs login requires a password to be typed in. Is there any way to automate this? Strangely, the cvs man page does not even mention the login command. I know that cvsup would be an alternative, i'm just used to using cvs from OpenBSD (where no login is required). Greetings, Heinrich
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