Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:06:59 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Adam <adam@jamradar.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_5 vs. RELENG_5_3 Message-ID: <41BE8303.5060401@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <003b01c4e19c$c1a54c80$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> References: <003b01c4e19c$c1a54c80$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR>
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Adam wrote: >So if I cvsup with RELENG_5, and I'm currently running version 5.3, will I'll be getting the new code that will eventually become FreeBSD 5.4? > >If I update with RELENG_5_3, and I'm currently running version 5.3, will I just get critical updates and security fixes for FreeBSD 5.3? > >Thanks > > > Yes, everything you said is correct. If you cvsup with RELENG_6 you will be tracking -CURRENT (aka HEAD), NEVER! a good idea for a newbie. If you cvsup with RELENG_5 you will be tracking -STABLE, -STABLE does NOT imply the code is "Stable", only that there won't be radical changes to the code, that is what -CURRENT is for, I would not recommend tracking this for 5.x until it matures a bit more, maybe after 5.4 or 5.5-RELEASE and even after it stabilizes tracking -STABLE is not recommend for "production systems", Think of it as "Beta" software. If you cvsup with RELENG_5_3 you will be tracking the -RELEASE branch for that -RELEASE, this will get you critical and security updates, this is what you want. Also some -RELEASE branches are designated as errata fix branches. Then when 5.4 is released you would change it to RELENG_5_4 and cvsup to 5.4. See here for more about Release Engineering: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html
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