From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 2: 9:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A7637B407 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 02:09:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id LAA30565; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:17:37 +0200 Message-ID: <3B25DCD5.8C87652C@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:11:49 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Heimes, Rene" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diff between -Release and -Stable? [Was : No Subject] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 [Providing a subject increases the chance for a timely answer.] "Heimes, Rene" schrieb: > > what is the difference between x.x-RELEASE and STABLE > how do i get a stable version? Hell, I wanted to point fingers to a FAQ or Handbook entry, but it just is not there. Anybody? Stable is a continuously maintained version, which gets updated almost daily. You can get -stable from various servers using CVS, CVSup and other tools. Release is a specific point in time of the stable branch, which gets pressed to CD-ROM. Just before the masters are built, -stable gets tested more than usual, which makes -release even more stable than stable ;*). You can get obtain a stable version as described in the handbook -- look for http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html. This implies you have to have a running version before, which usually is done by installing a -release version from any of the various installation tools. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message