Hi, On 02/09/2017 11:01, Franco Fichtner wrote: > >> On 9 Feb 2017, at 4:47 PM, Steve Wills <swi...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> They're supposed to upgrade to a supported version of FreeBSD. > > pkg won't refuse the upgrade. And at least if it upgraded, it > should not break itself.
Even if the update of pkg were done before the upgrade of the OS, if the user ran "freebsd-update" to upgrade to 10.3, the version of pkg that it updated to would work properly. > Imagine a GUI-driven appliance being bricked. There is nobody > who can tell it "fetch ports and build pkg to keep using it". Vendors should be building their own packages. > Don't get me wrong. Automation around pkg is really good, though > that doesn't warrant it's perfect (yet). I agree it's good, and nothing is ever perfect. Steve
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