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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: next release, when? Date: 9 Jan 1996 06:55:13 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ct3gh$lb2@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4ck9pd$j3n@news.csus.edu> <4co9fp$cn@knobel.gun.de> <4cpkhs$k8t@agate.berkeley.edu> <DKw067.KGI@news2.new-york.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <DKw067.KGI@news2.new-york.net>, Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote: >I thought the -SNAP releases were off the -stable branch,and would be 2.1.1s >until there was a 2.1.x-RELEASE and 2.2 switched from -current to -stable? -SNAP releases *have* been, up to now, confined to the 2.1 branch. That is true. However, I don't see any reason why the occasional development SNAP might not be made for those of more hackish disposition. If you're a developer who'd like to jump straight onto the main development line of FreeBSD, right now your only real choice is to install the latest stable version, grab a copy of the 2.2-current sources and then build the whole thing from scratch. That's unnecessarily complicated when a SNAP can be built so easily. Start with the most recent SNAP, grab a CTM base delta from around the same time and any ensuing deltas, run 'em through the ctm command and you're off and running -current. Also, to be honest, I make snap primarily because they're a good test of the release tools, and producing fairly frequent snaps keeps the release stuff from breaking too severely as various people hack on it. Jordan