This is more or less how it is if you have custom options for ports. It is best to have a second machine for poudriere building if you're looking for no downtime. I suppose another alternative could be running a virtual machine, bhyve/virtualbox and building the packages moving them over to host before the upgrade but that seems a bit tedious.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Grzegorz Junka <li...@gjunka.com> wrote: > Is there a canonical way of upgrading FreeBSD to a newer major version? > > The handbook https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-free > bsdupdate.html says: > > Major versions use different Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs), which > will break most third-party applications. After a major version upgrade, > all installed packages and ports need to be upgraded. > > So, it seems that I need to have the packages ready and compiled before > attempting an upgrade of the base. However, poudriere says: > > [00:00:00] ====>> Warning: !!! Jail is newer than host. (Jail: 1100122, > Host: 1003000) !!! > [00:00:00] ====>> Warning: This is not supported. > [00:00:00] ====>> Warning: Host kernel must be same or newer than jail. > [00:00:00] ====>> Warning: Expect build failures. > > So, it seems that I need to upgrade the base first before being able to > build packages. > > If I upgrade base and it breaks poudriere's ABI, I won't be able to build > new packages. One workaround would be to install the official poudriere > package and then attempt to rebuild all applications. > In either case it seems that the system would be unusable between the time > of upgrading the base and finishing compiling all packages and reinstalling > them, which may take a day or so. Is there any other way? > > Grzegorz > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
