On Nov 16, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote:
In production (at an ISP), what is the best to
follow...RELENGX_X or
RELENG_X? I have 4.x, 5.x boxes in production, and this
6.x box is
being prepared for the same.
See the Handbook:
20.2.2.2 Who Needs FreeBSD-STABLE?
Thank you. However, that entire page out of the handbook
pretty much
clarifies that a production environment should *not* track either
STABLE or CURRENT.
So I'm assuming I'm best off with RELENG_6_0 etc, etc? Does anyone
here actually run STABLE or CURRENT in a production
environment? I've
personally had the most luck with RELENG_4 which is still
my main box,
but now my curiosity has got the best of me.
I generally track -RELEASE but my production boxes are currently at
5.4-STABLE from a while ago since there was an issue I was trying to
fix and was hoping someone had put a patch in to fix whatever my
issue was :-) My issue has not shown up since and my boxes
have been
working fine.
But in general I play it conservative and track -RELEASE
Thanks Chad,
Do you 'sup and build in a devel lab first, or do you perform your
upgrades in real-time, and if something fails go from there?
Major version changes I try and do in a lab first and make sure all
is good. -RELEASE patch levels I do live and have never had an
issue. The current switch to -STABLE was also live since I was in a
bind trying to figure out why I was getting a hanging machine...
Chad
I've found it to be ok when something fails (only lived with FBSD
since
4.5), as usually it fails during build (which doesn't cause downtime),
and after the reboot after installkernel (which can be reverted by
using
your backup of your previous kernel, or if you don't make a direct
backup, essentially kernel.old) that you can get back up and running
very quickly.
Steve
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