From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 10 10:24:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D170C1065678 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:24:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F448FC18 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:24:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7AAOjeL099613; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:24:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.7.0 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk m7AAOjeL099613 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=200708; t=1218363887; bh=tarL9N9uicstBK VpX/i81Gm6jGVPjP8mH7ulABNP6Sk=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version: To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc:Content-Type: Date:From:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Mime-Version:References:To; z=Mes sage-ID:=20<489EC1E6.9050807@infracaninophile.co.uk>|Date:=20Sun,=2 010=20Aug=202008=2011:24:38=20+0100|From:=20Matthew=20Seaman=20|Organization:=20Infracaninophile|User -Agent:=20Thunderbird=202.0.0.16=20(X11/20080726)|MIME-Version:=201 .0|To:=20twhoffma@student.matnat.uio.no|CC:=20Jan=20Henrik=20Sylves ter=20,=20=0D=0A=20questions-list=20freebsd=20|Subject:=20Re:=207-stable=20packages=20on=20 7.0-release=20system?|References:=2053237.84.48.122.117.1218294399. squirrel@webmail.uio.no=09<489DE5B3.7070708@janh.de>=20<33216.80.20 2.85.78.1218362714.squirrel@webmail.uio.no>|In-Reply-To:=20<33216.8 0.202.85.78.1218362714.squirrel@webmail.uio.no>|X-Enigmail-Version: =200.95.6|Content-Type:=20multipart/signed=3B=20micalg=3Dpgp-sha256 =3B=0D=0A=20protocol=3D"application/pgp-signature"=3B=0D=0A=20bound ary=3D"------------enig5F08687B293F5E9A2917A8AD"; b=gTOwszNNqn5jbQi j3jcgDxOqk8Muz6k9BMmWiQ2xJiSXnk67gTcDLLgbO28k/htWmRLhlKJEEZiKP1sidz 5PaiWqIEb9okPOyu+dxuKi50DAig2qT/hlblWU4Z/bkYzzUa6LaHSPgFVkQq+xa84TQ rLu8DSPLM0pACaBfz1Ao7o= Message-ID: <489EC1E6.9050807@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:24:38 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080726) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: twhoffma@student.matnat.uio.no References: 53237.84.48.122.117.1218294399.squirrel@webmail.uio.no <489DE5B3.7070708@janh.de> <33216.80.202.85.78.1218362714.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <33216.80.202.85.78.1218362714.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5F08687B293F5E9A2917A8AD" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/7998/Sun Aug 10 09:10:40 2008 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VERIFIED,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: Jan Henrik Sylvester , questions-list freebsd Subject: Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:24:54 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5F08687B293F5E9A2917A8AD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: =20 > Please excuse me for branching this thread off into another loosely > related question. But then, if I am to use this laptop of mine for work= > (nothing critical): How stable is 7-stable? Can I upgrade to 7-stable v= ia > freebsd-update? RELENG_7 is very stable. It is a development branch, but it is the ultimate stage of testing before code goes into a release. I've never personally been bitten by problems introduced into stable -- and I track it fairly closely on a couple of machines that are pretty important to me= =2E Problems in RELENG_7 are rare -- weeks between occurrences -- and when they do happen it's usually due to trivial errors merging code from HEAD that stop the system building successfully. That sort of thing is genera= lly=20 fixed within hours. As the user of a RELENG_7 system, the only effect this could have on you would be to delay your doing a system update for a= small time. You will have to use csup/cvsup to track RELENG_7 and compile world yourself. FreeBSD-update only covers release branches (eg RELENG_7_0 or 7.0-RELEASE-p3 as it is at the moment.) 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