From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 19:10:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB68137B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 19:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sancho2k.net (spruell.dsl.xmission.com [166.70.24.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACC5643F3F for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 19:10:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@sancho2k.net) Received: (qmail 20420 invoked from network); 12 May 2003 02:08:11 -0000 Received: from win2kpro.sancho2k.net (HELO sancho2k.net) (10.0.0.3) by 0 with SMTP; 12 May 2003 02:08:11 -0000 Message-ID: <3EBF0720.6040707@sancho2k.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 20:29:52 -0600 From: "Sancho2k.net Lists" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RELENG_5 branch exist? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 02:10:38 -0000 I installed FreeBSD 5.0 expecting to be set to track a -stable branch for it. I assume this would be called RELENG_5, but I see the following branches exist with no RELENG_5: RELENG_5_0 The release branch for FreeBSD-5.0, used only for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes. RELENG_4 The line of development for FreeBSD-4.X, also known as FreeBSD-STABLE. Is 5.0 not far enough along in development to require a -stable branch yet? What would be the difference between tracking 5.0 security and 5.0 stable? TIA DS