From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 22 12: 4:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DEB37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:04:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from pat.uio.no (pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE9743ED8 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:04:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steinab@ifi.uio.no) Received: from tolf.ifi.uio.no ([129.240.65.212]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 18bR7A-000025-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:04:48 +0100 Received: (from steinab@localhost) by tolf.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:04:48 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall options Organization: :noitazinagrO From: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:04:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Frank Tegtmeyer's message of "22 Jan 2003 10:08:29 +0100") Message-ID: <3jzptqprlwf.fsf@tolf.ifi.uio.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7) References: <20030122145850.E54551-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frank Tegtmeyer writes: | I thought that the -RELEASE system is made from the -STABLE cvs | branch so that this is in effect the same. Is this wrong? No and yes. RELEASE is taken from STABLE, but that doesn't mean that STABLE is RELEASE. When a new release is being made, it is always tested rigorously. STABLE is a branch undergoing constant development, meaning that there's no guarantee of its stability. It might contain development code that could be unstable. Not really bad, but not rock solid. Tracking RELEASE is a lot more stable. If you have, say, RELENG_4_7 in your supfile, you get security fixes for 4.7-RELEASE. This doesn't happen very often unless many security holes are found. This is the way to go if you are dependent on stability. If you track RELENG_4 (= STABLE) you get more new features, but sometimes at the cost of stability. -- SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message