Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:04:40 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: "'Chad R. Larson'" <chad@DCFinc.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: "juha@saarinen.org" <juha@saarinen.org>, "joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us" <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>, "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD Message-ID: <01C0FEE8.33512E80.wmoran@iowna.com>
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[I'm going out on a limb here (using MS Outlook). I think I've got the formatting cleaned up, but if I don't, feel free to complain.] On Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:11 PM, Chad R. Larson [SMTP:chad@DCFinc.com] wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:34:03AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > As I said at the beginning, perhaps it's time to simply re-write the > > Handbook paragraph which inadvertently "sells" -stable as a solution > > for certain types of problems it was never meant to solve. > > Yes, the handbook paragraph was clearly written to suggest that if > you run a production machine you should track -STABLE **in leiu of > -CURRENT**, not as a general rule. That is, if you chose to track > anything at all, it should be -STABLE. I disagree completely. Did you read the handbook? <HANDBOOK EXCERPT> If you are interested in tracking the FreeBSD development process, and you want early access to the features that will appear in the next ``point'' release of FreeBSD then you should consider following FreeBSD-STABLE. Tracking FreeBSD-STABLE also gives you easy access to security fixes for FreeBSD as they are released. However, you do not need to track FreeBSD-STABLE to do this, as every security advisory for FreeBSD explains how to fix the problem for the releases it affects. </HANDBOOK EXCERPT> Seems pretty clear to me. If you're interested in the development process, or need a new feature, you should *consider* tracking stable. -STABLE is also a method for getting security fixes, although it is NOT the only method. Where exactly did you get the impression that -STABLE was for people who want to get all the bug fixes? > That should be easy to clarify. Looks clear to me already. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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