From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 8 12: 4:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A08315295 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15235; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:04:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:04:19 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Theo PAGTZIS Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ambiguity between -STABLE and -RELEASE Message-ID: <19991108120419.A11594@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <1218.942090443@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <1218.942090443@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; from T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk on Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:47:23PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:47:23PM +0000, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: > just a very basic question that would resolve a dispute between colleagues. > > When one talks about Fbsd3.3-STABLE my impression is that such version is a > stage before the Fbsd3.3-RELEASE. In other words the -RELEASE is for the > final version and the -STABLE is the version that is soon (after some further > bug settling) to become -RELEASE. > > Is this the case? Nope. ;-) 3.3-STABLE is the 3.x branch after 3.3-Release. It's probably not correct to talk about 3.3-STABLE except that it tells people that you are running a version of the 3-STABLE (RELENG_3 to CVS) branch after 3.3-RELEASE. The way things work is that there is a 3.x branch which is referred to as 3-STABLE and releases are snapshots of that branch. -- Brooks -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message