From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 15:42:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4599737B402 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:42:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0JNjc813375; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:45:38 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am confused about tracking stable Message-ID: <20010119154538.A13324@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <01012000204800.03036@buffy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01012000204800.03036@buffy>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:20:48AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:20:48AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello > I have a 4.0 RELEASE installation. > Is tracking STABLE meaningful, since the latest release is 4.2 Imagine 4.x-RELEASE a single point along a long line called "FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE". In other words, every now and then we take a snapshot of the current state of the 4.x branch, and call it 4.y-RELEASE. The name "4.x-STABLE" means "the 4.x branch after the release of 4.x-RELEASE but before 4.(x+1)-RELEASE". So the only difference between 4.0-RELEASE and 4.2-RELEASE is that the latter is a much newer version of the 4.x codebase. So what you want is in fact to update to 4.2-STABLE. Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6aNGiWry0BWjoQKURAkNAAJ4mlK97fXRBlBm1DgeQmMQOAUsYWwCfd1gx YrOlJL50mt+ZWNNgKH68VSQ= =zwcW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message