From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 26 14: 8: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9EA637B401 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neve_ripe@yahoo.com) Received: from f2f.tsua.net (HELO never) (212.40.34.58) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2001 22:08:02 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:07:55 +0200 From: Alexandr Kovalenko X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.49) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Alexandr Kovalenko Organization: UIC Group X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <2287441574.20010227000755@yahoo.com> To: "Jonathan Slivko" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whats the difference between -STABLE & -RELEASE? In-reply-To: <200102261654.AA1220411776@stmail.pace.edu> References: <200102261654.AA1220411776@stmail.pace.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Jonathan, Monday, February 26, 2001, 11:54:03 PM, you wrote: JS> Sorry for sounding like a newbie, but whats the difference between FreeBSD -RELEASE & FreeBSD -STABLE? From what I understand, the source tree is a little more conservative in what it lets JS> through. Am I correct in assuming that? -- Jonathan M. Slivko -RELEASE is what is tagged on some date with RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE for example, and there is no changes in cvs tree to it, all changes go to -STABLE branch. That's why there is so-called code freeze period before each release, to see weather it stable enough to roll CD sets from it and so on. -STABLE is what is changes continuosly and has tag RELENG_4, in outher words, -STABLE is middle between two sequential releases. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. -- Best regards, Alexandr mailto:neve_ripe@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message