From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 11:39:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341BA37B479; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 11:39:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 84BF218E0; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:39:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:39:50 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Mike Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA Message-ID: <20001106143950.P565@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001106143417.00b9d9d8@mail.futuredesigns.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001106143417.00b9d9d8@mail.futuredesigns.net>; from mike@mikesweb.com on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:36:19PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ redirected to -questions ] On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:36:19PM -0500, Mike wrote: > I am confused.. I cvsup'ed RELENG_4, and got a 4.2-BETA build out of it.. I > thought RELENG_4 was supposed to get the STABLE tree.. > > Should this still be considered "production environment" ready or no? Yes. 4.2-BETA is just a symbolic name for 4.1.1-STABLE before 4.2-RELEASE. It is intended to be a pre-RC1, and for the most part its only purpose is to test ports to make sure nothing has a dumb configure script (i.e. where it thinks 4.2 is not a valid FreeBSD version or something). The moral of the story is: don't trust naming schemes much, understand the purpose of the branch. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message