From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 12:44:23 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 D160216A4CE for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:44:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturn.futuredesigns.net (saturn.futuredesigns.net [216.46.197.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62A4343D1F for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sturdee@saturn.futuredesigns.net) Received: (qmail 74664 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Feb 2004 20:44:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:44:22 -0500 (EST) From: Mike To: David Beukes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040218154232.A279@saturn.mikesweb.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 20:44:23 -0000 FreeBSD-CURRENT vs. FreeBSD-STABLE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html Release Documentation: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.html That should clear it up for you. -Mike On Wed, 18 Feb 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?). > > 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? > > 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? > > And where do security patches fit into this story? > > Any info would be helpful. > > Thanks, > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -------------------------------------- "Hard Work Often Pays Off After Time, but Laziness Always Pays Off Now."