From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 19: 3:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A145537B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail006.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail006.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9F343FBD for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:03:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from izzo@optusnet.com.au) Received: from kalgan.local (c18428.eburwd1.vic.optusnet.com.au [210.49.180.23]) by mail006.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1L33c804237 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:03:38 +1100 Received: from kalgan.local (izzo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kalgan.local (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1L33uta011822 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:03:56 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from izzo@kalgan.local) Received: (from izzo@localhost) by kalgan.local (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1L33unC011821 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:03:56 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:03:56 +1100 From: Sam Izzo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup Tags and release status Message-ID: <20030221030356.GA11675@kalgan.vic.optushome.com.au> References: <3E559505.6030703@email.uc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E559505.6030703@email.uc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:55:01PM -0500, Travis Troyer wrote: > This says that RELENG_4 is for FreeBSD-STABLE and that RELENG_5_0 is > "used only for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes." > Is this still the case now that 5.0 is the current release version? I > installed FreeBSD using the 5.0-Release ISO and want the most current, > but stable packages, so I'm not sure which tag to use. FreeBSD 5.0-STABLE may not be as stable as you hope :-) Have a read of: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html for details on the FreeBSD release process. > Also, I'm trying to install NVidia's geforce driver, which says it is > for FreeBSD -STABLE version 4.7 or later. When I try to compile it, it > says that "This driver does not support FreeBSD 5.0/-CURRENT!" If I > installed FreeBSD from the 5.0-Release ISO, wouldn't I be running > 5.0-Stable and not 5.0-Current? From the above url: "FreeBSD 5.0 will be based on the CURRENT branch. This will be the first release from this branch in over two years (the last was FreeBSD 4.0, in March 2000). At some point after the release of FreeBSD 5.0, a ``5-STABLE'' branch will be created in the FreeBSD CVS repository with the branch tag RELENG_5. The past two stable branches (3-STABLE and 4-STABLE) were created immediately after their respective ``dot-oh'' releases (3.0 and 4.0, respectively). In hindsight, this practice did not give sufficient time for either CURRENT or the new STABLE branches to stabilize after the new branches were created. Therefore, the release engineering team will only create the 5-STABLE branch in the CVS repository after they have found a relatively stable state to use as its basis. It is likely that there will be multiple releases in the 5.X series before this happens; we estimate that the 5-STABLE branch will be created sometime after 5.1-RELEASE or 5.2-RELEASE." cheers sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message