Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:49:35 -0500 From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>, jwpauler@jwpages.com, tom@uniserve.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Next release Message-ID: <0101111049350E.00498@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> In-Reply-To: <E14GftO-0004lE-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk> References: <E14GftO-0004lE-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>
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On Thursday January 11, 2001 06:27, Pete French wrote: > > To anyone using cvsup, releases are growing increasingly > > meaningless. > > O.K., I am slightly confused here - I thought that tracking 4.2 > stable just gives me bug fixes to 4.2, I personally would like something like that, but that is not how it works. > yet I am starting to get the > impression that if I continue cvsupping regularly I will actually end > up with 4.3 by the time it is released ? Yes, the stable branch is continuously improved with bug fixes and new features. Every four months (now that I know that number :) or so a release is made from from the stable branch. > I was under the impression > that tracking -stable did not attempt to add any new features, but > instead simplt added bug fixes to the last release... > > Anybody point me in the direction of a concise explanation at all ? Chapter 19 of the handbook gives it. But section 19.2.2.2 seems to imply it is just a bug fix branch, but since new features sometimes bring bugs, that would seem misleading to me. Anyone more enlightened care to shed light on that? Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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