On 2016-02-25 06:34, Martin Schreiber wrote: > Ouch! The last time I tried to upgrade FreeBSD it went miserably wrong.
I must confess, upgrading the base OS is extremely simple and very reliable. The benefit here is that FreeBSD is not just the kernel (like Linux), so the rest of the base OS is very well tested and integrated too. I've upgraded my workstation since FreeBSD 9.0 with every release up 'till 10.1 - no problems. It's the ports and binary packages that is more of an issue for me. But according to the support forum, it is because of my lack of understanding the ports system. They have a point, I never read the docs in much detail. ;-) Apparently you need to update all ports or binary packages you installed at the same time - when you do an update. Over the four years I've only selectively upgraded a library here, an application there etc. That causes version mismatches and what is the primary cause of breaking the build process of ports. It makes sense if you think about it. So now I'm upgrading every ports or binary package that I installed after the base OS. This is going surprisingly easy, and the more user libraries I update the more reliable application updates become. So far I'm very impressed. My VM servers are all still sitting on stock FreeBSD 9.0. Much less user installed applications or services, so hopefully that should be even easier to upgrade. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
