Helge Mühlmeier <H_Muehlmeier%gmx.de@localhost> writes: > If I understand the terminology right there are maintenance branches > like netbsd-6.1 which will be forked from netbsd-6 if the releng-team > think it is time for it... netbsd-6 should be the same on that time > stamp (tag) but will differ in future because netbsd-6 will get > minor features too (not only security fixes). Almost. netbsd-6-1 is rooted at the place on netbsd-6 where the 6.1 formal release is. It gets only security fixes. netbsd-6 gets a larger category of fixes. The real question is the degree of safety of following a branch, in terms of getting good bugfixes and not getting problems. The history of NetBSD stable branches for a very long time is that for a normal use computer (not a webserver for a bank, where you want a whole second copy and to do exhaustive testing before upgrading the real one), it's safe to update along netbsd-6, rebuild and reinstall, and reboot. The odds of having to recover are very small. If you're ultraconservative, then following netbsd-6-N (for the latest N) makes sense. But most uses are well served by the main stable branch. See pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage for code to help with building and updating.
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