unstable, testing, stable catalogs - which should I use?

0	There multiple catalogs on the mirror. Unstable, testing, stable, dublin, current, legacy... which one should I use? general This question is marked "community wiki". asked Feb 06 '12 at 13:05 automaciej ♦♦ 96●25●29●36

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First, one must know that there are actually only three catalogs to choose from:

stable == legacy
testing == current == dublin
unstable

Packages in stable are quite old and won't be updated anytime soon.
Packages in testing are updated every now and then. They're not very recent, but not really old either. This is a good choice for the majority.
Packages in unstable get frequent updates and they're the most recent you can get on OpenCSW (except experimental packages). But they're not thoroughly tested and may be - as the name indicates - unstable. This may be a bad choice for production systems if you can't test these packages beforhand.

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answered Feb 07 '12 at 15:43

See also this post for a visual diagram of the branches and their relationship to each other.

(Feb 09 '12 at 14:11) skayser

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