Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 01:35:32 -0800 From: "Mitch \(Bitblock\)" <mitch@bitblock.com> To: "'Kevin Oberman'" <oberman@es.net>, "'David Syphers'" <dsyphers@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: OK - I'm stumped - where IS stable? Sorry if it seems like a dumb question but I looked in the handbook... Message-ID: <002401c60f7f$e020d870$0600010a@hts.bitblock.net> In-Reply-To: <20060102054202.3A5905D07@ptavv.es.net>
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> > From: "Mitch \(Bitblock\)" <mitch@bitblock.com> > > Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:15:57 -0800 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > > > The handbook > > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current- > stable.ht > > ml#STABLE) references > ftp://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ > > - which doesn't seem to contain any 6.0 files newer than 2004? > > > > The main FTP site doesn't contain a "branches" folder for anything past > > 4.0-stable. > > > > Are formal "stable releases" not available for 6.0 yet? Just the current > > daily snapshots? > [Mitch says:] Thanks to both of you for your reply - so basically, it seems that what was once documented... (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.ht ml) is no longer maintained? Should I point this out to someone on a doc list or something? Where CURRENT could be buggy and was not yet reviewed / fully tested, and STABLE was given an extra level of QA has at some point been abandoned then? Or are the CVS branches still in existence, but there is just no longer an ftp'able repository? My reason for looking at this is that I have some hardware which worked in 5.4, but does not in 6.0 RELEASE 0, so I thought I'd try to test bootable STABLE snapshots periodically to see if the problem gets fixed. The handbook seems to specifically state that STABLE branch should be able to be downloaded and installed like any normal RELEASE, but what you are saying is that I have to patch a 6.0 RELEASE now - does the "stable" code branch exist? Or am I likely to find unworkable snapshots? Thanks for your patience. The more I learn the more I realize I need to learn ;-) m/
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