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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:45:38 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I am confused about tracking stable
Message-ID:  <20010119154538.A13324@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01012000204800.03036@buffy>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:20:48AM %2B0100
References:  <01012000204800.03036@buffy>

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On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:20:48AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> Hello
> I have a 4.0 RELEASE installation.
> Is tracking STABLE meaningful, since the latest release is 4.2

Imagine 4.x-RELEASE a single point along a long line called "FreeBSD
4.x-STABLE". In other words, every now and then we take a snapshot of
the current state of the 4.x branch, and call it 4.y-RELEASE. The name
"4.x-STABLE" means "the 4.x branch after the release of 4.x-RELEASE
but before 4.(x+1)-RELEASE". So the only difference between
4.0-RELEASE and 4.2-RELEASE is that the latter is a much newer version
of the 4.x codebase. So what you want is in fact to update to
4.2-STABLE.

Kris

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