Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:35:20 +0200 From: "David Beukes" <dbm@5fm.za.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Stable vs Release vs Current Message-ID: <web-238362961@mail01.infosat.net>
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Hi, Have been using FreeBSD for about a year now but haven't understood or found a definitive answer to the versions/branches. Would appreciate it if someone could shed some light; a bit of history follows: I installed 1st FreeBSD system from 4.4 (the only cds I could get my hands on). By the time I started understanding what I was doing, 4.8 was out. So I CVSup'd the source and did the whole make buildworld/installworld kernel thing. And I was running 4.8... Question here is, was I running 4.4 release? or 4.4 stable? when did 4.8 become stable (are you starting to catch my drift?). Then in December 2003 (about a month after 4.9 was announced), I downloaded ISOs for 4.9 and reinstalled from scratch. Same questions as before, am I running 4.9 stable? release? When did release become stable? Am now running 4.9 and started cvsupping the source. my supfile has this line in it: default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9. Am I wasting my time? Should it rather read RELENG_4? If so, why? And where do security patches fit into this story? Any info would be helpful. Thanks, David
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