Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:24:58 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "kmays" <kmays@email.msn.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Use 4.0-STABLE or 5.0-CURRENT? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000629002004.035c4ed0@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <00ad01bfe180$8ca74860$b8f11e3f@KenMays> References: <20000628125500.A49568@phy.hr>
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At 12:14 AM 6/29/2000 -0400, kmays wrote: >I started talking about the new way to tell about versioning and remember >how current is noted by the "5.0-yyyymmdd-CURRENT". > >Question #1: Should be use v4.0-STABLE for production and >5.0-20000625-CURRENT for new development/testing?? CURRENT is always for development by the developers. This is all explained in the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html >Question#2: What is the latest 4.0-yyyymmdd-STABLE version as of today and >where is it usually located?!? Is there a place to get the ISO image or can >a request to make a weekly or monthly version of it possible?!? I only saw >4.0-20000307-CURRENT Again, see the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html on using cvsup to keep your branch up to date. Periodically snapshots are made in ISO format, but all you need to do is grab a release ISO or 2 floppy disks worth of data and cvsup to the latest, or burn your own release onto CD and install from it. >I think this is where people are getting confused (if not somewhere else). >I'm thinking to just use 5.0-CURRENT since it makes sense for bug tracking >and new development. Otherwise, if its not broke then don't mess with it or >use FreeBSD v4.0-RELEASE. Period! Its actually quite straight forward. The few paragraphs which explain the distinction are quite clear. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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