suggest renaming and extending the -CURRENT and -STABLE lines

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Oct 10 07:40:11 PDT 2007


Christian Baer <christian.baer at uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> If someone sees the result of RELENG_6 is called STABLE, he or she will
> problably think, this is the line where bug fixes are added, security
> problems fixed and the whole thing is meant for production systems. While
> the first two things may be true, I would not suggest RELENG_6 for
> production systems. Normally the -STABLE line works fine. But I *have*
> times in the past where a driver was changes and suddenly the system
> *didn't* work after a reboot or showed strange behaviour.

YMMV.  I run both CURRENT and STABLE on production systems.

DES
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