From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 11 13:12: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E28F37B40C for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@openirc.co.uk) Received: from [213.122.187.50] (helo=host213-122-187-50.btinternet.com) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #83) id 159Y2W-000068-00; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:11:56 +0100 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:11:34 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew McKay X-Sender: birminghamweb@fluoxetine.openirc.co.uk To: Kyle Rollin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG KR> RELEASE is code meant to be run on production computers. KR> STABLE is code that is continually being updated and is prone to bugs. Actually, -RELEASE is a snapshot of a particular RELENG branch at a particular moment in time. RELENG_4 (the 4th RELease ENGineer) is the branch from which all the 4.x-whatever comes from. -STABLE is simply another word for referring to RELENG_4, i.e. upon the release of 4.3-RELEASE, RELENG_4 became known as 4.3-STABLE. The real answer to this is that -RELEASE is a snapshot of a branch at a particular branch at a particular point in time whereas -STABLE is the continuation of that branch. -STABLE is no more buggy than -RELEASE because anything which is MFC'd into -STABLE is thoroughly tested first and, in fact, may well be less buggy because any bugs discovered are fixed whereas -RELEASE, being a static point on a branch, doesn't change. -CURRENT is the buggy branch and, as such, can occasionally be counted on to do Very Bad Things (tm) like wiping the superblock of an HD. -- /*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\ | Andrew McKay | Birmingham, England | | | GTR Committer | | | OpenIRC Network Admin | \*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message