On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Joe Abley wrote:

> Now, I'm pretty sure what I want to do is keep stable on 1.4 rather
> than running current. How do I specify this? Do I need to use a
> different tag to "current"?
> 
> Does "staying stable" have the same meaning in NetBSD as it does in
> FreeBSD? Are -current changes (for example) rolled back into the 1.4
> tree, to be picked up by stable-trackers?

No, it doesn't. There's no STABLE track as such: just -current, and
releases, and you can't sup the releases. Maybe someday there will be
anoncvs with the NetBSD-1.4 tag; that would be equivalent to supping
STABLE. There are a few approved patches to the release already in

<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4/patches/>