Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:43:03 +1100 From: Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne@heuristicsystems.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Choosing the right FreeBSD branch to test and maintain ports and docs Message-ID: <78acead4-3841-5078-9a2d-e74a1b0f3ca8@heuristicsystems.com.au> In-Reply-To: <8032509a-3377-6589-4e7b-2229a551af65@vigole.com> References: <8032509a-3377-6589-4e7b-2229a551af65@vigole.com>
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On 25/11/2020 6:31 pm, sasha vigole wrote: > Hi, to test ports (/usr/ports) and docs (/usr/doc), > should I build a testing FreeBSD machine, and maintain them on: > 1. base/head branch > 2. base/stable/12 branch > 3. base/releng/12.2 > or it's irrelevant. > > Thanks > Sasha Vigole > Release is well tested, having gone through multiple of each: alpha, beta, release candidate phases before being "released" to the world. You can be pretty confident that the system is functional and reliable. Stable receives some changes from head or "current". This will depend on the perspective of the committer (whether its immediately useful because it fixes a problem or enhances a non ABI change; or because the author would like wider testing results, after some preliminary use on current). Current should be viewed as the development branch. Generally code that ends up here has experienced a peer review, but probably lacks full integration testing. Also sometimes code is reverted because it doesn't behave as expected, or a better approach has been agreed. If you're new to FreeBSD and have equipment that is supported (refer to hardware support list), then Release would be recommended for your purposes. If you find that something isnt working for you and the developers are aware of the problem, its likely to be fixed in Stable. Regards, Dewayne. Resources: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/ - for hardware and errata (known issues and references) https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-releng/ - advises changes to a release, extremely low volume https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-stable-12/2020-November/ - the stable branch, for anything that might relevant, moderate volume https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2020-November/ - the development branch with high volume
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