Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:58:22 -0400 From: Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 7 stable, which tag?? Message-ID: <20080407165822.0955e4fa@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20080407172446.GB81680@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <f84c38580804070945g641b136ey5578bcd1a3e3ea9a@mail.gmail.com> <f84c38580804070954v18309535q95ca705ae9b8c9af@mail.gmail.com> <47FA550C.9070503@infracaninophile.co.uk> <f84c38580804071011t27e1678bmade36d6d317f0a0a@mail.gmail.com> <20080407172446.GB81680@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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--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 <jerrymc@msu.edu> 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 > > <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> 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/--
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