Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:22:32 +0200 From: "Plamen Petkov" <plamendp@bgstore.com> To: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: security fixes Message-ID: <008701c221a9$ff8cc380$62494fd9@f2f.cx> References: <20020701153650.Q50179-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> <009201c2213a$dd3a4b00$edec910c@fbccarthage.com>
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I would say that -STABLE is just the next mini-RELEASE and is a matter of naming scheme. The -CURRENT is.. well, the danger one, it might be *realy* unstable sometimes. But I think this discussion is enough old. I'd suggest searching mailing lists archives for more info about this subject. Regards, --- Plamen D. Petkov, ICQ# 2214327 plamendp@bgstore.com http://www.bgstore.com > As opposed to -CURRENT, yes. However, > the committers want everyone to realize that > once in a while you might build -STABLE with > something broken (albeit rare, as in the coincidence > of the "blue moon" and "hen's teeth" together...) > but it still could happen. -RELEASE is a -STABLE > that gets frozen for a while to see if any problems > pop up, or if it can be crowed about and burned > to CD with confidence (I hope the RELENG team > doesn't think I'm minimizing their hard work here.) > > Some people read the warning about -STABLE in > the Handbook (that I quoted earlier) and decide only > to run -RELEASE and patch security fixes, and > there is a cvs tag for this, called RELENG_4_x. > This is where a little confusion comes in, because > after a while they quit patching the older releases. > The official line is that it's the current release (4.6) > and the last (4.5) that are being patched, so if > you're still running 4.4-R, (for example) you're no > longer sure you can cvsup with RELENG_4_4 > and get any new patches. > > As I said, -STABLE's running fine for me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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