Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 16:26:33 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE Message-ID: <20101203162633.2a84687d@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim1_-zNc9%2BxZXJv=W9oYO0EAt6155NZaHfYFB8U@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTim1_-zNc9%2BxZXJv=W9oYO0EAt6155NZaHfYFB8U@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:42:09 +0100 J B <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ? Broadly n-STABLE branch-off from CURRENT and release security branches branch-off from a STABLE branch. Release candidates are usually points on a Stable Branch, and releases are points on the security branch. Occasionally it has been bit more complicated.
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