From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 20:58:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849B11065678 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2877E8FC1F for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id s46so1868086rnb.3 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.169.2 with SMTP id r2mr6565303wae.76.1207601920761; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:58:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio ( [67.189.206.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 26sm15263526wra.32.2008.04.07.13.58.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:58:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:58:22 -0400 From: Gerard To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080407165822.0955e4fa@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20080407172446.GB81680@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <47FA550C.9070503@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080407172446.GB81680@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.3) Face: 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 X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q X-Operating-System: FreeBSD-6.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/PAzbEX0MpeSajOYErmY132/"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Subject: Re: freebsd 7 stable, which tag?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:58:42 -0000 --Sig_/PAzbEX0MpeSajOYErmY132/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:24:46 -0400 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:11:59PM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Matthew Seaman > > wrote: > > > Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > > > > sorry, I just read some articles in the mailing list, it's > > > > RELENG_7 for stable, 7_0 is for current. > > > Nope. > > > RELENG_7_0 is for 7.0-RELEASE > > > RELENG_7 is for 7.0-STABLE (at the moment) > > > . is for 8-CURRENT > > so in a sense, 7.0-release is for developers, and 7.0-stable for end > > users, right? > No. 7.0-release is the final snapshot of 7.0. Current is > for developers and stable is a more cleaned up version of current. > Current is the bleeding edge. =20 > Stable is sort of like a beta > and release is the final, cleaned up and built and tested release. >=20 > The confusing thing is there can be more than one branch being > worked on. At the moment there is 7.xxx and 8.xxx. There can > be stable and release for each. The head is where current is > made which is 8.xxx now. =20 > If something is built in to current that is wanted more immediately,=20 > it gets merged in to the less bleeding edge tracks. The process for=20 > that is called 'Merge From Current' usually called MFC - as in 'that=20 > feature (or fix) was MFCed this morning'. It is amazing how often this question arises. I guess the manual does not explain the different 'tags' and branches thoroughly enough. --=20 Gerard gerard@seibercom.net "The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography" --Sig_/PAzbEX0MpeSajOYErmY132/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkf6ivcACgkQ6DWTaTcTwMmtxQCg40xmDHJG6r64IaHJOL6uA66J Qg0AoMIfrJ7iY+pELDpEo2sUUEnvjD72 =4X/d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/PAzbEX0MpeSajOYErmY132/--