From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 15:50:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1079337B422 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 15:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from mark2 (usr1058-wit.cableinet.co.uk [213.48.205.92]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA23304; Sat, 19 May 2001 22:22:42 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <002501c0e0a9$d7c34f50$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: , "Ken McGlothlen" References: <871yplnipa.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Subject: Re: -CURRENT, -STABLE and -RELEASE. Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 22:22:36 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Long ago (2.2-RELEASE, I think), I was informed by someone who shall remain > nameless but who should have been more knowledgable than I that the branches of > FreeBSD went something like this: > > -CURRENT: Bleeding edge, active source tree, experimental. > -RELEASE: The current running version, gets frequent bugfixes and > so on; this is the one that most people use. > -STABLE: A ploddingly updated source tree, only incorporating > minimal bugfixes, since stability was paramount. > > So I always just skimmed over that portion of the website, and used -RELEASE, > because I wanted the latest and greatest without the instability of -CURRENT. > And perhaps I shouldn't have, because from what this seems to say is that: > > -CURRENT: Bleeding edge, active source tree, experimental. > -STABLE: The current running version, gets frequent bugfixes and > so on; this is the one that most people use. > -RELEASE: A snapshot of a solidly running -STABLE source tree, > only incorporating minimal bugfixes between releases. > > Should I be tracking -STABLE instead? In other words, is -STABLE more or less > paranoid than -RELEASE? neither...if I understand things right, -RELEASE is a snapshot of -STABLE used to create the CD ISO images and CDs that you can buy from walnut creek or wherever. I think most people install the -RELEASE version then CVSUP to -STABLE and track that, but I could be wrong. HTH, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message