From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 6: 8: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE50E37B69E for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:07:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (1Cust25.tnt22.bos2.da.uu.net [63.28.5.25]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA21443; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by guinness.osdn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f16E7dM06758; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:07:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:07:38 -0500 From: Jim Mock To: Benjamin Ossei Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: STABLE Branch Message-ID: <20010206090738.A6041@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: jim@geekhouse.net References: <20010206132537.23D2036F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i In-Reply-To: <20010206132537.23D2036F9@sitemail.everyone.net>; from ben@cahostnet.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:25:37AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 at 05:25:37 -0800, Benjamin Ossei wrote: > Is there a stable branch called 4.2-STABLE? When I go to the ftp > site, I see 4.x-STABLE and 4.2-RELEASE etc. But no 4.2-STABLE. I'm I > understanding this all wrong? Is the 4.x-STABLE the stable branch > that we should use when doing out installs?. An explanation will be > great. Ok, I'll try to keep this simple :-) -CURRENT is the development branch -STABLE is the "production" branch -RELEASE is a snapshot of the -STABLE branch at release time To answer your question, the way that'll give the least headaches is to install -RELEASE then upgrade via make world (see the handbook) to -STABLE. - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message