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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
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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