From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 12:50:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C6416A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:50:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.llorien.org (mail.llorien.org [212.88.225.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199BE43D54 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:50:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from h=freebsd-questions=freebsd.org=qxosxxes@erathia.be) Received: from localhost (mail.llorien.org) [127.0.0.1] by mail.llorien.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) id=1CJWy8-0004qv-2n; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:50:38 +0200 Received: from [213.118.66.149] (helo=D5764295.kabel.telenet.be) by mail.llorien.org with asmtp (SSL 3.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_MD5:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1CJWx8-0004qs-Oe; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:49:30 +0200 From: h To: Matthew Seaman , Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:49:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041018074431.GE35360@ns2.wananchi.com> <20041018075641.GA24712@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20041018075641.GA24712@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410181449.38199.h@erathia.be> X-Authenticated-Sender: h X-Spam-Score: 1.6 Subject: Re: 5.3-STABLE ???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:50:44 -0000 On Monday 18 October 2004 09:56, Matthew Seaman wrote: > No -- that's expected. Once the RELENG_5_3 branch was created, the > RELENG_5 branch would be relabeld as -STABLE. Note that these are > just technical changes to the CVS repository and that all they do is > presage the actual release/launch of those OS versions. ie. You might > be seeing 5.3-STABLE in your uname(1) output, but it isn't official > until the project announces it. > > If your eventual aim is to install 5.3-RELEASE, this would be a good > time to change your supfile to track RELENG_5_3. Again -- that's just > producing release candidates at the moment: the release isn't official > until it's announced. if 5.3 hits the -STABLE tag does that mean my 4.*-STABLE boxes are going to download the 5.*-STABLES sources or are they safe with their tag ?