Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:41:09 -0500 From: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: "'Dan O'Connor'" <dan@ferrarishields.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Release engineering confusion Message-ID: <20051117004128.98ED243D73@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <02db01c5eb0e$3ba86b90$0599460a@Dan>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan O'Connor [mailto:dan@ferrarishields.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:31 PM > To: Steve Bertrand > Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' > Subject: Re: Release engineering confusion > > > Thank you. However, that entire page out of the handbook > pretty much > > clarifies that a production environment should *not* track either > > STABLE or CURRENT. > > > > So I'm assuming I'm best off with RELENG_6_0 etc, etc? Does anyone > > here actually run STABLE or CURRENT in a production > environment? I've > > personally had the most luck with RELENG_4 which is still > my main box, > > but now my curiosity has got the best of me. > > Yes, production servers should track -STABLE, since it's, > well, stable... > > -CURRENT is the development branch, so for a production > server, don't use that. But RELENG_6_0 is the 6.0-RELEASE > tag, and you'll never get any updates (bug fixes, security > patches, etc). > This is why I am confused, because as per the handbook (20.2.2.2): "For these reasons, we do not recommend that you blindly track FreeBSD-STABLE, and it is particularly important that you do not update any production servers to FreeBSD-STABLE without first thoroughly testing the code in your development environment." Also in there, it states that one does NOT need to follow stable to get the latest security/bug fixes, which makes me believe that on my production network, I should track RELENG_6_X (security/bug fix), and in my devel lab, RELENG_6 (STABLE). Appreciating, but 'disagreeing' with your comment that _6_0 will NOT get the sec/bug updates from my understanding so far. It is my understanding that _6_0 will get ALL the bug/sec updates, but nothing else because it is *frozen*, making it preferrably the track to follow in a pure, 24/7/365 environment, because new 'tricks' or 'features' are not introduced here. Does that seem accurate? Steve > ~Dan > > > >
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