On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 09:28:32AM -0800, NGie Cooper wrote: > > > On Jan 28, 2016, at 08:06, Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> wrote: > > > ... > > > What about upgrade strongly outdated system? > > For example 11.0 at time 18.0? I.e. packages for 11.0 don't available, > > pkg from 11.0 don't undertund package base from 18.0 and etc. > > This is an important question to ask and solve. There might be > points in time where seamless upgrades are not possible, and instead > you need to hop from release to release (this is not ideal, but it > could happen).
I see two side of this problem: support in sofware and support in infrastructure (ftp.freebsd.org and etc.). Because pkg is not part of base FreeBSD and live in ports -- this hops need to preserve (and testing?) packages collections for all past releases and don't move it to archive. And regular resigning package databases. And I miss somewere. > For instance, at $work we're allowing upgrades from version X to Y, > and Y to Z, but not direct upgrades from X to Z. Part of the > rationale behind this change is, deprecation of platforms and the > change in upgrade framework, which requires upgrading from blessed > releases proven to work with the new framework. This is common practic, yes. This is acceptably if possible got all necessary in time 18.0 for upgrade from 11.0. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
