* On 2014-04-27 at 23:43 BST, Nicholas Lee wrote: > Is there a location where individual package changelog files are > kept for pkgin full-upgrade/upgrade?
We include a list of changes in the commit logs for each package, but there is no easy way to pull those out and correlate them with the binary package. There is currently no place to store such information in a binary package, but it would be a reasonably nice project to work on if someone wanted to start hacking on it, and I can see that it would be quite useful. > How long is each set (2013Q4, 2014Q1, etc) of packages maintained? Officially only the most recent branch is maintained, so 2014Q1 is the current supported branch, and anything older is obsolete. Maintenance means that the pkgsrc releng team (community volunteers) backport security and important fixes from pkgsrc trunk to the maintenance branch. However, we (Joyent) continue to maintain older branches in a best effort capability, and will e.g. backport fixes such as Heartbleed to as many branches as we deem necessary. At present we do not have a well defined EOL policy, but this is something that will need to be addressed as the number of branches grows. > Is there a process to upgrade from one set of packages to a newer > set? ie from 2013Q4 to 2014Q1 or 2014Q2. The best procedure is always to provision a new image, that will give you the most complete set of binary package updates as well as image changes all integrated together. In-place upgrades can be fraught with peril and we make no guarantees that they will work, especially when running software which requires care when upgrading such as PostgreSQL. However if you wish to proceed with this method then updating the repository in /opt/local/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf and doing a 'pkgin full-upgrade' may work for your use-case. Regards, -- Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
