In message <7b6e5361-b109-498e-b22f-96a94dec3...@mac.com>, Chuck Swiger writes: > Hi, Dave-- > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Dave Hayes wrote: > [ ... ] > > Do I have this wrong? Anyone see a problem with this picture? > > What can we do to "just upgrade" in a safe fashion when we want to? > > Two things help tremendously: > > #1: Have working backups. If you run into a problem, roll back the > system to a working state. If you cannot restore a working system > easily, fix your backup solution until you can rollback easily. > > #2: Have a package-building box and test builds before installing > new package builds to other boxes. Your downtime for upgrades > to the rest of your boxes become minimized.
Note: this doesn't require multiple physical systems to do. A jail / chroot area will give you a perfectly fine build / test system for ports. It just uses a bit of disk space. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ 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"
