Confused about version

[Peter Boosten]

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illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> On 01/08/07, Peter Boosten <peter at boosten.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What should I be running when updating my sources? RELENG_6 or
>> RELENG_6_2? Or is there no difference?
> 
> Short answer:
> What do you want to do?
> 
> Slightly longer:
> RELENG_6 is the stable testing branch that
> will become 6.3 (soonest).  RELENG_6_2 is
> the security branch of 6.2.
> 
> If you want to just use FreeBSD, RELENG_6_2
> is what you want.  You can upgrade to 6_3
> when it is released, probably without difficulty.
> 
> If you want to help test, or are curious to watch
> the whole release process, or are just dying for
> some feature in -stable, RELENG_6 is probably
> what you want.
> 
> Security branches are more or less (although
> in no legal way) guaranteed to work (for some
> definition of work), -stable and -current much
> less so.
> 
>> When running RELENG_6, how often would I have to make buildworld?
>>
> 
> As often as you want, and as often as you check
> out the code.  A couple of times a day or once a month.
> 
> And, though you didn't ask, if you run RELENG_6_2,
> you'll want to rebuild (at least the pertinent bits) when
> there is a security notice which affects you.
> 

Thanks to all: very clear answer. I'll stick to 6_2 then.

Greetz,

Peter
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