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

There multiple catalogs on the mirror. Unstable, testing, stable, dublin, current, legacy... which one should I use?

asked: 2012-02-06 by: automaciej

AirOnSkin answers:

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.

skayser commented:

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

cgrzemba commented:

For the current setting look at: http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw

jamesbradley answers:

Same here with the solution...