On 21/09/2022 01:47, Graham Perrin wrote:
True: no freebsd-update for CURRENT, however I'm raising awareness of the automation. (My own experience: a habit adopted with CURRENT might be accidentally repeated with RELEASE.)On 20/09/2022 23:14, Nuno Teixeira wrote:If using freebsd-update(8) to perform the upgrade: please be aware that, with recent releases of the OS, there's automated creation of a snapshot of a boot environment.Hello to all, I will use becl for the first time for current upgrades. Just to check that I'm thinking correctly: Create a test environment for upgrade: > bectl create -r test (should I use '-r'?) Activate test: > bectl activate test > reboot ... > upgrade OS on test …<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD>, CreateBootEnvOmitted from release notes; sorry.
For updates/upgrades to CURRENT: I do prefer to create, activate then boot an environment before installing.
----With the alternative (a snapshot that's not active), and a Default boot environment, things can become confusing when the preferred environment is no longer Default, especially if (in rare situations) Default becomes no longer bootable. Need to think _very_ carefully about names and the appropriateness of renaming.
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