El Tuesday, 2 July, 2002, a las 05:37 AM, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
escribió:

> Some people read the warning about -STABLE in
> the Handbook (that I quoted earlier) and decide only
> to run -RELEASE and patch security fixes, and
> there is a cvs tag for this, called RELENG_4_x.
> This is where a little confusion comes in, because
> after a while they quit patching the older releases.

So on production systems track RELENG_4_6 now, and when that stops being
updated, start tracking RELENG_4_7, and so on.... I can't see any
problems with that. That way you're tracking the security fixes and
critical patches, and then when you need to you're upgrading your entire
system in safe way.

I think the advice to not track STABLE on production machines is good.
Sure, STABLE is mostly exactly that: STABLE. But there are always going
to be exceptions... The last thing you want is a machine that won't boot
after something went wrong and you have to pay $$$ to get access to the
datacentre and rescue the machine...

Cheers
Wincent

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