From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 13:42:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 406351065674 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:42:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jb.1234abcd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE748FC0C for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:42:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj9 with SMTP id 9so4106284qwj.13 for ; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:42:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=2E/NHUufPLDIqwlXoxXn8pqp4OByZsNDIBW+WT0gubg=; b=MLRA7bOfmiRH1Aa082s5VFgBhMRZ04l6Ject3JD2aFKtWXOfLAbEc+5oPf4ykKmSy7 IVtBvgvfBc78tOLz5fBiU7f1GYo/YWBz9Y7IRujk5gn2saQ6AIx3dQZMMeW28cwCLrzy M9Xla3XpWQUKb61yXhJ/g2Eug3JKbY36mzD9Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=PFt8XzVDp6eNZBQ+HZjO9Jj6bAD3yYc/RzhV8yg7rjnVxagCGBzptDd7ePtlmMN3N3 Su5boN1bIPMczCG603/mYltR5KWMuGeBLg5zSPjBA9b7OEqvwiCC/J9FsC52BoHlLtD2 8p40lSUlIofjY4SqDQzlWdH7sz50tBYOxy7jE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.80.77 with SMTP id s13mr1265718qck.186.1291383729842; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:42:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.90.148 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 05:42:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:42:09 +0100 Message-ID: From: J B To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:42:11 -0000 Hi, I have: $ uname -r 8.1-RELEASE installed. I understand the concept of software dev, and RELEASE (a snapshot in time), and CURRENT as a dev branch, and STABLE as a dev branch followed CURRENT. But I have difficulty placing them in a dev and respository tree. For example, in my case, can I describe it as below 8.1-RELEASE -> 8.2-CURRENT -> 8.2-STABLE -> 8.2-RCn -> 8.2-RELEASE and the cycle repeats ? JB