Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:11:34 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk> To: Kyle Rollin <klined@orbimus.dhs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106112103230.6892-100000@fluoxetine.openirc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106111519130.67392-100000@orbimus.dhs.org>
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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 | | <andy@gayteenresource.org> | GTR Committer | | <andy@openirc.co.uk> | OpenIRC Network Admin | \*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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