From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 11:12:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0A7416A4B3 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.silvertree.org (arthur.silvertree.org [64.139.44.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7746D43F75 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archon@silvertree.org) Received: (qmail 11879 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2003 18:12:00 -0000 Received: from localhost.silvertree.org (HELO silvertree.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.silvertree.org with SMTP; 25 Sep 2003 18:12:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3F732FB9.9000900@silvertree.org> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:11:05 -0700 From: Scott Schappell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <20030925171846.GA54272@polands.org> <3F7324A6.9020105@silvertree.org> <20030925175342.GA54334@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20030925175342.GA54334@polands.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Seeking advice for new server: 4.8-REL vs. 4.9-BETA X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:12:01 -0000 Doug Poland wrote: >I guess I have some confusion between what's -STABLE and -RELEASE and >when one becomes the other. Better read up on it. > > The way I understand it is there are three "branches" CURRENT - the cutting edge source, use at your own risk, etc (5.x). This is a branch that is in development. STABLE - this is the development branch for a current dot release. For example 4.9 right now is in the STABLE branch and has gone through a certain level of testing in CURRENT. 4.9 right now is PRERELEASE, but it's still considered STABLE. Since it's still a dvelopment branch, it's prone to bugs (but not as many as CURRENT) as used primarily for contributors to the project or folks who want to stay as absolutely current in their current RELENG version (4). RELEASE - this is a branch that is the most stable, it's only updated to fix security or system issues. If you're tagging *default tag release=. (that's a literal . not a punctuation mark) then you're tracking CURRENT (5.x) If you're tagging *default tag release=RELENG_4 you're tracking 4.x STABLE If you're tagging *default tag release=RELENG_4_8 you're tracking 4.8 RELEASE (security branch) - this is what I'm following in my cvsupfile. Again, this is how I see it after reading the handbook, and I may be a bit off the mark :). Cheers