From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 7 2:54:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cclib.nsu.ru (cclib.nsu.ru [193.124.215.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1710514DD9 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 02:54:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan837@cclib.nsu.ru) Received: from localhost (dan837@localhost) by cclib.nsu.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA01855 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:54:05 +0600 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:54:05 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Dmitry A. Novoselov" X-Sender: dan837@glory.nsu.ru Reply-To: "Dmitry A. Novoselov" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: my vision: what is -RELEASE and -STABLE Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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