On 5/31/12 1:20 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote: >>>> A regular debian update is 5 minutes + reboot >>>> A regular FBSD update is about 1.5 hour + 3 reboots (after >>>> installkernel, installworld, rebuild of ports) >>> >>> But how often do you need to >> >> As a matter of fact, too often, that's te problem. >> >> We have > 800 servers and I can't argue that debian's update process is much >> simpler and faster. > > Take a look at freebsd-update: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html. > This tracks release. >
As I just replied to an off-list mail, we can't use binary upgrades because: 1/ we use custom kernels with a lot of the stuff stripped 2/ we pass custom options to ports, which excludes pre-compiled packages 3/ we don't track release, I'm trying to move our boxes away from it so we can get faster patches, we track 8-STABLE on most boxes _______________________________________________ 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"
