From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 11 7:46: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.144.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA79237B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:45:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.2r) with SMTP id KAA17849; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:45:24 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: Pete French , jwpauler@jwpages.com, tom@uniserve.com Subject: Re: Next release Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:49:35 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0101111049350E.00498@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday January 11, 2001 06:27, Pete French wrote: > > To anyone using cvsup, releases are growing increasingly > > meaningless. > > O.K., I am slightly confused here - I thought that tracking 4.2 > stable just gives me bug fixes to 4.2, I personally would like something like that, but that is not how it works. > yet I am starting to get the > impression that if I continue cvsupping regularly I will actually end > up with 4.3 by the time it is released ? Yes, the stable branch is continuously improved with bug fixes and new features. Every four months (now that I know that number :) or so a release is made from from the stable branch. > I was under the impression > that tracking -stable did not attempt to add any new features, but > instead simplt added bug fixes to the last release... > > Anybody point me in the direction of a concise explanation at all ? Chapter 19 of the handbook gives it. But section 19.2.2.2 seems to imply it is just a bug fix branch, but since new features sometimes bring bugs, that would seem misleading to me. Anyone more enlightened care to shed light on that? Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message