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Bug 52679
[patch] FAQ is out of date with regards to 5.X releases
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doc-faq-cur-stable.patch
doc-faq-cur-stable.patch (text/plain), 3.83 KB, created by
simon
on 2003-05-25 23:40:03 UTC
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>Index: book.sgml >=================================================================== >RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v >retrieving revision 1.538 >diff -u -d -r1.538 book.sgml >--- book.sgml 13 May 2003 19:15:26 -0000 1.538 >+++ book.sgml 25 May 2003 22:22:30 -0000 >@@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ > <para><ulink > URL="../handbook/cutting-edge.html#CURRENT">FreeBSD-CURRENT</ulink> > is the development version of the operating system, which >- will in due course become 5.0-RELEASE. As such, it is >+ will in due course, become the new &os.stable; branch. >+ This is expected to happen around 5.2-RELEASE. As such, it is > really only of interest to developers working on the > system and die-hard hobbyists. See the <ulink > URL="../handbook/cutting-edge.html#CURRENT">relevant >@@ -412,8 +413,10 @@ > experimental features are quite undesirable. It receives > only well-tested bug fixes and other small incremental > enhancements. FreeBSD-CURRENT, on the other hand, has >- been one unbroken line leading towards 5.0-RELEASE (and >- beyond) since 2.0 was released. If a little ASCII art >+ since 2.0 was released, been one unbroken line leading >+ towards 5.2-RELEASE (and beyond), where 5.X-STABLE is >+ expected to be branched off, and &os.current; becomes >+ 6-CURRENT. If a little ASCII art > would help, this is how it looks:</para> > > <programlisting> 2.0 >@@ -439,9 +442,11 @@ > | (May 1999) (Sep 1999) (Dec 1999) (June 2000) (July 2000) > | > | [4.0-STABLE] >- *BRANCH* 4.0 (Mar 2000) -> 4.1 -> 4.1.1 -> 4.2 -> 4.3 -> 4.4 -> ... future 4.X releases ... >+ *BRANCH* 4.0 (Mar 2000) -> 4.1 -> 4.1.1 -> 4.2 -> 4.3 -> 4.4 -> 4.5 -> 4.6 -> 4.6.2 -> 4.7 -> 4.8 ... future 4.X releases ... >+ | (Jul 2000) (Sep 2000) (Nov 2000) (Apr 2001) (Sep 2001) (Jan 2002) (Jun 2002) (Aug 2002) (Oct 2002) (Apr 2003) >+ | >+ 5.0-RELEASE (Jan 2003) > | >- | (July 2000) (Sep 2000) (Nov 2000) > \|/ > + > [5.0-CURRENT continues]</programlisting> >@@ -454,11 +459,11 @@ > > <para>4-STABLE is the actively developed -STABLE branch. > The latest release on the 4-STABLE is >- &rel.current;-RELEASE, which was released in >- &rel.current.date;.</para> >+ &rel2.current;-RELEASE, which was released in >+ &rel2.current.date;.</para> > > <para>The 5-CURRENT branch is slowly progressing toward >- 5.0-RELEASE and beyond. See <link linkend="current">What >+ 5.1-RELEASE and beyond. See <link linkend="current">What > is FreeBSD-CURRENT?</link> for more information on this > branch.</para> > </answer> >@@ -2267,7 +2272,7 @@ > lists. Since hardware changes so quickly, however, we > expect this. We <emphasis>still</emphasis> strongly > recommend that you read through the >- <ulink URL="&rel.current.hardware;">Hardware Notes</ulink> >+ <ulink URL="&rel2.current.hardware;">Hardware Notes</ulink> > and search the mailing list > <ulink URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/#mailinglists"> > archives</ulink> before asking about the latest and >@@ -2305,7 +2310,7 @@ > > <answer> > <para>See the complete list in the current <ulink >- URL="&rel.current.hardware;">Hardware Notes</ulink>.</para> >+ URL="&rel2.current.hardware;">Hardware Notes</ulink>.</para> > </answer> > </qandaentry>
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