Hello,
Some freebsd-beginner questions about how to maintain a production
server up to date day after day, with a practical example: now I have
to update a 6.1-based server from mysql 4.1 to mysql 5.0, minimizing
the downtime during the upgrade.
In the past under other OS'es I would have
On 05/22/07 21:03, Olivier Mueller wrote:
Some freebsd-beginner questions about how to maintain a production
server up to date day after day, with a practical example: now I have
to update a 6.1-based server from mysql 4.1 to mysql 5.0, minimizing
the downtime during the upgrade.
In the
On May 22, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Olivier Mueller wrote:
So I can only do that after the installation of mysql50-client, which
means all the services will have to be stopped during the
compilation of
mysql50-server, which usually takes some time.
Isn't there a better way? How do you handle such
Olivier Mueller wrote:
Isn't there a better way? How do you handle such cases?
We go to extra lengths and allow only pkg installs on servers. That way
we are sure, that no random library pollution takes place. It also makes
stuff better reproducable.
Sadly packages are somewhat neclected and
Chuck Swiger wrote:
On May 22, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Olivier Mueller wrote:
So I can only do that after the installation of mysql50-client, which
means all the services will have to be stopped during the compilation of
mysql50-server, which usually takes some time.
Isn't there a better way? How
