From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 19:21:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E7716A41C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 19:21:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MGrooms@seton.org) Received: from mx1-out.seton.org (mx1-out.seton.org [207.193.126.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A78F43D53 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 19:21:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MGrooms@seton.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mx1-out.seton.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A046F0008FF; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:21:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mx1-out.seton.org ([10.21.254.249]) by localhost (mx1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 19420-15; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:21:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ausexfe01.seton.org (unknown [10.20.10.183]) by mx1-out.seton.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB07F0008FD; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:21:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [10.20.160.190] ([10.20.160.190]) by ausexfe01.seton.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:21:17 -0500 Message-ID: <42C598E3.9000503@seton.org> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:26:27 -0500 From: Matthew Grooms Organization: Seton Healthcare Network User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <42C56340.4070705@seton.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Jul 2005 19:21:17.0579 (UTC) FILETIME=[0DFA0DB0:01C57E72] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at seton.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about the RELENG_5 branch ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:21:20 -0000 I was under the impression that the only patches being back ported in 5.4-RELEASE are from the security team to fix security related issues. Do patches that resolve problems that are known to cause panics get back ported as well? Thanks for the reply, Matthew Grooms Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 7/1/05, Matthew Grooms wrote: > >>All, >> >> I understand the difference between STABLE and CURRENT but I am a >>bit confused about the RELENG_5 branch. Is this just another name for >>the 5.x STABLE branch or is it used for something completely different? >>I have a production server that is running 5.4-RELEASE but requires a >>few stability fixes that have been checked into RELENG_5. Im just not >>sure if I should cvsup the host to that branch or apply the patches >>manually to the 5.4-RELEASE install. >> >>Thanks in advance, >> >>-- >>Matthew Grooms >> > > > You check to see if they where going to be backported into 5.4?