From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 19 9:24:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mls.gtonet.net (mls.gtonet.net [216.112.90.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B0C37B4EC for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:24:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from pld (pld.gtonet.net [216.112.90.200]) by mls.gtonet.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f1JHOrb50690 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:24:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oldfart@gtonet.net) Reply-To: From: "oldfart@gtonet" To: "freebsd-current@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: RE: Do we need a 3. level between stable and cuurent? Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:24:52 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3A915663.5348C9F3@directski.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I stand corrected... > -----Original Message----- > From: Dermot McNally [mailto:dermot@directski.com] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:23 AM > To: oldfart@gtonet.net > Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD. ORG > Subject: Re: Do we need a 3. level between stable and cuurent? > > > "oldfart@gtonet" wrote: > > > -RELEASE, I thought, is for production. Although, it's true, > -STABLE rarely > > has a stop. > > Nope, -STABLE is for production, -RELEASE is for installing immediately > prior to upgrading it to -STABLE. X.X-STABLE = X.X-RELEASE + fixes + > carefully selected stuff that has been well tested in -CURRENT. > > Dermot > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Dermot McNally, Chief Technical Officer, Directski.com > dermot@directski.com http://www.directski.com - ski the web To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message