From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 22:19:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9598637B405 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:19:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g3C5Iwv68896; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:18:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:18:57 -0400 (EDT) From: doug X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: "JustinL. Boss" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still not sure about STABLE and CURRENT In-Reply-To: <3CB6692F.4060904@yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stable - Stable - Stable. Seriously, stuff gets put into CURRENT before it is ready for prime time much less for a production system. That is the definition of CURRENT. There are a couple of ways you can track stable: tag=RELENG_4_5 used only for security and critical fixes tag=RELENG_4 STABLE All this is covered in A.7 in the handbook. I update production systems from common source using the following scheme: 1) run it on workstation(s) 2) if all is okay update name server 3) if all is still okay do the rest. This has be covered at length if you go through the the archives of questions and stable lists. On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, JustinL. Boss wrote: > If I have a production server that needs to be up 100% of the time what > do I use, current or stable. If it is stable then why when I compile my > kernel with the stable source do it I get errors and with the current > source everything seems to work well. If you do answer this question > would you please explain why you answered the way you did. Thanks. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message