Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:54:05 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Dmitry A. Novoselov" <dan837@cclib.nsu.ru> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: my vision: what is -RELEASE and -STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.SK.1000107163422.1757B-100000@glory.nsu.ru>
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hallo! i'm kinda new to freebsd, and so i have a question. now, i just stay my visions of the things, and i ask someone to say whether i am right or not and possibly correct me. so, here i go: =+=+=+= freebsd is very cool system ;) distributed in a two ways: binary and source. binary distribs are -RELEASE and -SNAP. source distribs are -STABLE and -CURRENT. we'll leave away -SNAP and -CURRENT, since we want stability here first (no plans for development yet :) -RELEASE is ones only way to setup *BRAND NEW* system - to my knoledge, i can't buy new computer, wipe whatever is on my hdd, and install -STABLE on it - becase it has no sysinstall, no binaries, et cetera. instead, i pickup any -RELEASE, say 3.4, install it (probably even minimal bin distibution), than install cvsup and get all up to 3.4-STABLE, (it is just 3-STABLE branch, right?). one question however: if i install ony minimal bin distro (read: no source files) it will take *much* longer to cvsup than if i install system bins + sources, right? so, correct me if i am happen to be wrong: the optimal RELEASE installation would be system binaries + sources, but no additional packages/ports. than i setup cvsup and get -STABLE. make world, and i am happy (don't forget kernel recompilation, of course). after that, i stay with -STABLE. thus, -RELEASE is merely for first-time installation. +=+=+= am i correct? i would like get answers to *all* of mine questions. please reply. dmitry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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