From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 13:17:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C897016A4CE for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from smta10.mail.ozemail.net (smta10.mail.ozemail.net [203.103.165.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAE043D1D for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from cartman.ozemail.com.au ([203.61.128.137]) by smta10.mail.ozemail.net with ESMTP <20040218211510.ZLAY18700.smta10.mail.ozemail.net@cartman.ozemail.com.au>; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:15:10 +0000 Message-Id: <6.0.3.0.2.20040219081257.022e5cc8@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: pop.ozemail.com.au/110/robbyrnes@127.0.0.1 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.3.0 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:17:21 +1100 To: "David Beukes" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Rob B In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Stable vs Release vs Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:17:36 -0000 At 10:35 PM 18/02/2004, David Beukes wrote: >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?). 4.4-RELEASE is just 4.4-STABLE at one particular point in time >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? -STABLE becomes -RELEASE when the source tree is tagged with -RELEASE >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? That all depends if you want to follow -RELEASE plus security fixes, or if you want a (slowly) moving target that is -STABLE >And where do security patches fit into this story? See above >Any info would be helpful. I suggest re-reading the Handbook, the section on Stable vs Current (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html) is most pertinant. Cheers, Rob -- "Beer. Now there's a temporary solution." - Homer Simpson This is random quote 9 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5