Re: Binary upgrades?
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > >> I wonder if this could be made easier. I'd be surprised if there >> wasn't a method of doing binary upgrades already. For example, if we >> decided to track releases, would that enable us to do binary upgrades >> using sysinstall, say? I vaguely remember having seen an upgrade >> option in there... > > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update Yes, being able to install security updates is a cool thing. I've now installed it and read the freebsd-update(8) and freebsd-update.conf(5) man pages. Alas, I don't grok it, yet. - Is the intent that I can make my own server? Or is it "just" a convenient way to receive binary upgrades for releases? (I put the quotes there because I think it is not a small feat.) - If I'm supposed to be able to make my own server, how to put stuff there? - What does it do with config files during the upgrade? (Actually, I think for me it would be sufficient for the thing to install default config files -- I've got cfengine to handle the rest...) - Can it upgrade from one version to another, or is it for security fixes only? Regardless of the answers, however, I can already see that it will help us tremendously: we just install a release, then let freebsd-update handle the rest for the base system. And for the ports, we think of another way, such as the "portupgrade -avRPP" command that I mentioned before. Now the only thing missing is my ability to convince them ;-) Kai ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Binary upgrades?
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:37:56 +0100 Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to convince my cow-orkers and my boss to switch to ^^ > FreeBSD from Debian GNU/Linux. The systems we are talking about > are workstations (desktop or laptop PCs), our servers are running > Solaris. Oh, I love this one ;) Regards, Thorsten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Binary upgrades?
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> I wonder if this could be made easier. I'd be surprised if there
> wasn't a method of doing binary upgrades already. For example, if we
> decided to track releases, would that enable us to do binary upgrades
> using sysinstall, say? I vaguely remember having seen an upgrade
> option in there...
http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update
It's still in development, so it hasn't been adopted yet as an
official FreeBSD thing, but that surely is just a matter of time.
Works exceedingly well, and because of Colin Percival's binary diff
tool, it's really very light weight in the bandwidth usage stakes.
It's available from ports, of course:
security/freebsd-update
The 'binary upgrade' option in sysinstall is a different thing: it's
essentially a mechanism for wiping and replacing your current system
with that release version, backing up various important config files
as it does so. You still need to repopulate your /etc directory by
merging the updated default contents with the saved versions, and it's
generally not as smooth to do as the more usual means of
{build,install} {world,kernel} and running mergemaster. (Unless you're
upgrading over a large number of versions or across a major version
number change).
Cheers,
Matthew
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