STABLE vs CURRENT packages

[Patrick Powell]

I just know that this is somewhere in the FreeBSD Handbook.
And I probably deserve the scorn and snickers these questions will get.

I just checked the .ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ site 
and saw:



packages-8-stable 
 	

10/11/1200:00:00
packages-8.3-release 
 	

03/28/1200:00:00
packages-8.4-release 
 	

05/09/1305:06:00
packages-9-current 
 	

12/09/1100:00:00
packages-9-stable 
 	

04/16/1315:20:00
packages-9.1-release 
 	

04/11/1303:29:00
packages-stable 
 	

11/07/1100:00:00


I noted that the dates on the some of the packages in packages-8-stable 
were 2012,  while most of those in packages-8.4.-release were much newer 
- 2013.


And I noticed that there was no 'packages-8-current' directory.

Questions:  what is the relationship between the 'stable', 'release', 
and 'current' versions?

And where is this documented in the FreeBSD Handbook?
Is there supposed to be a 'packages-8-current' directory?

OK,  start the snickers and humiliation :-) ...

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Re: STABLE vs CURRENT packages

[RW]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:52:38 -0700
Patrick Powell wrote:


> And I noticed that there was no 'packages-8-current' directory.
> 
> Questions:  what is the relationship between the 'stable', 'release', 
> and 'current' versions?
> And where is this documented in the FreeBSD Handbook?
> Is there supposed to be a 'packages-8-current' directory?

Current and stable are development branches. There's only ever one
current, 10-stable will be branched off current, and the 10.0 release
security branch is branched off from 10-stable.
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