Vince Hoffman wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Peter Risdon wrote:
I have been pondering the wisdom
of automating the upgrade process,
You may want to have a look at freebsd-update. Its a binary updater, Client/Server config, the server code and info on what it is, is available from http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ and the client is in ports.
Vince
Thanks very much for this.
I was vaguely aware of freebsd-update (I think it's been mentioned on this list). But since it seems only to be concerned with security updates it forms a subset (albeit vital) of a complete upgrade.
I suppose what I'm driving at is whether the RELENG_4 branch sees many commits that are likely to be problematic. My experience of it, which is both fairly random and limited, is excellent. I don't remember having any problems with a kernel/world upgrade within a production branch. Doing a batch of upgrades today simultaneously and remotely, and all going fine as usual, made me think of this again.
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