[H-GEN] FreeBSD CVS Tree Confusion.

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Good Afternoon to all! :)

Quick question re. FreeBSD tree's:

I understand that CURRENT is HEAD in Cvsup and is the 'cutting edge'
fixes/updates(most of which dont work together yet), but as far as I can
find in the Handbook there's only one STABLE, which is RELENG_4, and the
release branches for 5.0 and 5.1 only contain advisories and other critical
fixes? So the only conclusion I could draw is that STABLE is based on
FreeBSD 4, when they have released TWO distributions since then??? Why not
have stable for version 5.1 that contains tested updates since the 5.1
release.  Probably I have it all wrong, because at the moment i'm really
confused by this, I have pasted the relevant section that i'm refferring to
from the FreeBSD Handbook, can someone please try and explain this to me?

HEAD

Symbolic name for the main line, or FreeBSD-CURRENT. Also the default when
no revision is specified


(I understand CURRENT, and I Don't want to run it)

RELENG_5_1

The release branch for FreeBSD-5.1, used only for security advisories and
other seriously critical fixes.


(Why is this branch not called STABLE, and why doesnt it contain all the
updates that have been certified to work by passing through CURRENT first?)

RELENG_5_0
The release branch for FreeBSD-5.0, used only for security advisories and
other seriously critical fixes.

RELENG_4

The line of development for FreeBSD-4.X, also known as FreeBSD-STABLE.

(Sure this would be a stable branch, but I dont want to run FreeBSD 4, I
want 5!!!!)



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