From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 6:55:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omta03.mta.everyone.net (sitemail.everyone.net [216.200.145.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65EE37B503 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:55:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta03.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A52B49099; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:55:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id 704C336F9; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:55:18 -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 06:55:18 -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: <20010206145518.704C336F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, read it again. I went to the ftp site to study the branches again. I hope this is correct. There is a FreeBSD-stable which is linked to 4.0-STABLE directory. If I was going to do an install of freebsd and wanted to run the stable os from the gate out, (I will follow your recommendation though)can I use the FreeBSD-stable as my insall directory in the options? Or will I use 4.0-STABLE? Which one will the installation be looking for. For now I use 4.2-RELEASE so what will it be in my scenerio? Thx.. --- Benjamin Ossei > wrote: >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 _____________________________________________________________ ========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