From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 2 1:23:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C866637B405 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plamen.bgstore.com (bgstore.digsys.bg [193.68.22.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D93943E26 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:23:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plamendp@bgstore.com) Received: from ilkom1 ([217.79.73.98]) by plamen.bgstore.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g628PDeW055142 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:25:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from plamendp@bgstore.com) Message-ID: <008701c221a9$ff8cc380$62494fd9@f2f.cx> From: "Plamen Petkov" To: References: <20020701153650.Q50179-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> <009201c2213a$dd3a4b00$edec910c@fbccarthage.com> Subject: Re: security fixes Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:22:32 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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