Subject: Re: none
To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/06/2007 20:28:39
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:03:29PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> I assume you mean one would follow the post-release changes to keep track 
> of NetBSD 4.1 (or 4.0.x etc). And if I don't want that, I should be able 
> to stick onto 4.0 once its released and then just follow its security 
> patches etc. Right? (Just confirming so I know its possible to install one 
> of the dailies now, keep following the 4 branch till its released, and 
> stop then after that except for updates).

If you stick to netbsd-4 after the release, you'll get NetBSD 4.0_STABLE
which will eventually lead to NetBSD 4.1, 4.2, and so on.  If you only want
security/critical fixes, switch to the netbsd-4-0 branch after the release
(it doesn't exist yet), and you'll be tracking NetBSD 4.0.1, 4.0.2, ...

	Geert