Do you know any more convenient way (except make buildword, etc.) to upgrade/update several boxes to STABLE on regular basis? Something like freebsd-update or maybe some process, tips, tricks, etc?
Thanks. On 2010-10-08, at 6:11, Pete French <petefre...@ticketswitch.com> wrote: >> Ok. But how stable (production ready) the FreeBSD-8-STABLE is? What is your >> opinion? > > I am running 8-STABLE from 27th September on all our ptoduction > machines (from webservers to database servers to the company mail > server) and it is fine. I am going to update again over the next > few days, as there are some ZFS fixes in which I want - and which > may benifit you too - so I will be able to report back next > week as to how a more recent version behaves. > > In general though, I have never had problems running STABLE on > prodyction systems over the years. Of course what I do is to test it > on a singlre machine before rolling it out (a leaf in a webfarm > so if it goes down it wont affect the business) but it is usually > fine. keep an eye on -STABLE mailing list though, as that is where > problems arise. I watch that, and also the dailing commits, either here > > http://www.freshbsd.org/?branch=RELENG_8&project=freebsd&committer=&module=&q= > > or here > > http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/svnews/?p=stable/8 > > Just to see whats going into the tree relative to whats being discussed. > It only takes a few minutes a dat to monitor the mailin lists and the > commits, and the result is that we've been running STABLE for a very > long time (close to a decade I suspect) with great success. > > -pete. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
