Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:51:10 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Some ?s about CVSup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912132144020.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9912140945580.5103-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > > Hello! > > I just have a few ?s to make thing clearer: > > 1). Does it make sense to CVSup -RELEASE sources? And, is -RELEASE > brance just a -STABLE + packages compiled from ports that were latest to > the day of release? If so, would CVSuping -RELEASE act like CVSuping > -STABLE? I restate this: If I CVSup my 3.3-RELEASE, will I get latest > -STABLE (3.x branch)? Or I have to stick with -STABLE from the very > beginning to be able to update system sources? You can easily have cvsup move you to -stable, just make sure you specify tag=RELENG_3 for it, there shouldn't be a problem with going from a release to a -stable. > 2). There've been a message ported several days ago, when someone > was saying that generally performance of -RELEASE tends to be greater than > that of -STABLE. Anyone has comments on this? Besideds wanting to know what he was smoking, probably not. Actually to be fair, let me clarify: There's an occasional -stable snafu, but -stable is just that 'stable' we strive to keep it as reliable as possible and don't bungle around changing major infrastructures. Things going into -stable will generally be things like a device driver, or NFS fixes, but not something like a rewrite of the TCP stack. The only time you'll see a patch posted for a -release is when a security issue comes up that must be addressed. And you should realize that it won't be applied to -release, once a release is a release there is nothing done to it from that point on, only -stable gets bugfixes applied to the source. There's no point of 'tracking' a -release as it simply doesn't go anywhere. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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