From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 21:05:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 A534516A41F for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:05:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F9243D5C for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:05:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969266468; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:05:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10671-02; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:05:03 -0600 (CST) Received: by makeworld.com (Postfix, from userid 1008) id B71AA6465; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:05:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75587645D; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:05:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4388CDFF.4090203@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:05:03 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051122) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.D. Bronson" References: <20051126182651.A966@www.pukruppa.net> <43889E27.2010209@makeworld.com> <20051126185500.I966@www.pukruppa.net> <4388A349.9080808@makeworld.com> <4388A5B0.6070005@mainframe.ca> <4388A6E4.1040206@makeworld.com> <4388C27A.8090601@vfs.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20051126145004.00c17008@sixcompanies.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20051126145004.00c17008@sixcompanies.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.3.3 (20050822) at makeworld.com - FreeBSD:The Power To Serve Cc: "matt ." , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yesterday's -STABLE kernel corrupts LAN X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: RacerX@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:05:08 -0000 J.D. Bronson wrote: > At 02:45 PM 11/26/2005, matt . wrote: > >> Wow I must be missing something here on a very basic, fundamental level. >> >> I run FreeBSD-RELEASE on a production box. I have my reservations but it >> was the only release that supported my RAID controller, so I had no >> choice >> (or buy a $300 raid card that was supported). Anyway it works fine so >> far >> (knock heavily and repeatedly on huge pieces of wood). >> >> I've read the FreeBSD notes regarding the differences between STABLE, >> CURRENT and RELEASE. So uh, what is supposed to be run on a production >> box? In plain sight on the FreeBSD site it says "Latest production >> release" >> which is 6.0-RELEASE...are we only supposed to run RELEASE on production >> systems or are we supposed to run STABLE? Seems to me it's >> counter-intuitive to call something STABLE and not have it meant for >> production. My head hurts. >> >> matt > > > I couldnt agree more with this comment. My head hurt after > trying to figure this out as well.. > > Yea. The information seems to contradict itself. > The only thing I have been able to 100% figure out is: > > #*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_0 > -> release branch/security fixes only > Results in: 6.0-RELEASE > > #*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 > -> 6.0 + changes will eventually be 6.1 > Results in: 6.0-STABLE > > It is perhaps a bit easier in OpenBSD land. -STABLE means only bugfixes > and important patches. In FreeBSD - this seems not the case? > > -JD > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > And here once again, the website tells us: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE Good Lord, it's a wunnerful thing to read. -- Best regards, Chris The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.