From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 7 19:34: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A150A14E6D for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:34:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max9-51.gbis.net [207.228.62.115]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA08905; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:33:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA08760; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:33:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <010601bf5989$2d25b220$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Dmitry A. Novoselov" , Subject: Re: my vision: what is -RELEASE and -STABLE Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:33:41 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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? -RELEASE is just a point along the -STABLE track. If you download the latest -RELEASE, or install off the CD, you're at -RELEASE (e.g., 3.4-RELEASE). Once you update your sources (say by using CVSup), 'make world', and recompile the kernel, you'll find yourself at -STABLE. Once you're tracking -STABLE, as a new release looms on the horizon (and assuming you 'make world' often enough) you'll go from 3.3-STABLE to 3.4-RC (release candidate, typically 1-2 weeks ahead of the actual release date) to 3.4-RELEASE to 3.4-STABLE... There's lots more info about this in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/stable.html). --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message