From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 2 09:35:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C220F16A41F for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:35:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mitch@bitblock.com) Received: from bigass1.bitblock.com (ns1.bitblock.com [66.199.170.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEA543D53 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:35:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mitch@bitblock.com) Received: from dc1 ([66.199.170.122]) (AUTH: LOGIN mitch@bitblock.com) by bigass1.bitblock.com with esmtp; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:35:31 +0000 X-Abuse-Reports: Visit http://www.bitblock.com/abuse.php X-Abuse-Reports: and submit a copy of the message headers X-Abuse-Reports: or review our policies and procedures X-Abuse-Reports: ID= 43B8F3E3.0000701D.bigass1.bitblock.com,dns; dc1 ([66.199.170.122]),AUTH: LOGIN mitch@bitblock.com From: "Mitch \(Bitblock\)" To: "'Kevin Oberman'" , "'David Syphers'" Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 01:35:32 -0800 Organization: Bitblock Systems Inc. Message-ID: <002401c60f7f$e020d870$0600010a@hts.bitblock.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.326 In-Reply-To: <20060102054202.3A5905D07@ptavv.es.net> Thread-Index: AcYPX0ReRT27hte1S7irJVKnKgyTPgAH5z4g 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... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:35:40 -0000 > > From: "Mitch \(Bitblock\)" > > 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/