Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:22:15 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: Matt Martini <martini@invision.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ypserv Message-ID: <20010729232215.A23068@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107300007260.47306-100000@aeon.invision.net>; from martini@invision.net on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:09:15AM -0400 References: <20010729184121.E22165@freeway.dcfinc.com> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107300007260.47306-100000@aeon.invision.net>
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:09:15AM -0400, Matt Martini wrote: >> If you're gonna upgrade your box from 4.2, why not go to the 4.3 >> "most stable" branch (RELENG_4_3)? Is it because you are only doing >> binary installs, and not source builds? > > Chad, > > Actually I used RELENG_4 which I thought was "most stable." > Am I wrong? I am doing source builds (buildworld, buildkernel). Then you should have noticed that your "uname -a" is no longer reporting 4.3-RELEASE, but 4.3-STABLE by now. The RELENG_4 branch is what is referred to as -STABLE. It is the branch to which some features are migrated after they've been installed and "burned in" in -CURRENT (which is RELENG_5 at the moment). It's also the branch that has generated all the e-mail about occasional breakage and not being suitable for revenue generating production systems. If you continue to fetch and build RELENG_4, sometime next month your system will automatically transition from 4.3-RELEASE to 4.3-STABLE (probably already has) to 4.4-RELEASE to 4.4-STABLE, with perhaps a couple of -RC (release candidate) versions along the way. This may be fine, if you want your system to be picking up new features as they develop. It's probably not what you want if you can't afford to have your systems break. So a new branch was created (RELENG_4_3), which is RELENG_4 that will only have security fixes and =major= bug fixes applied. No new features or functionality. This is what I run on production systems. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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