From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 6:38:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omta02.mta.everyone.net (sitemail.everyone.net [216.200.145.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A38837B699 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:38:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta02.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD501C3BA6; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:38:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id DF7E536F9; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:38:01 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:38:01 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Ossei To: jim@geekhouse.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: STABLE Branch Reply-To: ben@cahostnet.net X-Originating-Ip: [162.6.224.88] Message-Id: <20010206143801.DF7E536F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, I got that part also. Thanks for the reply. This is where I get confused. When I perform a cvs I put in RELENG_4, is this the -STABLE branch? Is this the correct tag to use. Is this what you consider -STABLE? I am going to read this over again. Thanks... --- Jim Mock > wrote: >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 _____________________________________________________________ ========GET YOUR FREE E-MAIL============ http://freemail.cahostnet.net Web Hosting http://www.cahostnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message