On Tuesday 04 March 2008 13:07:21 Bogdan Ćulibrk wrote: > Mel wrote: > | Minimize downtime of services provided by ports? > | > | Jose: take a look at Tinderbox - it does exactly what you want to do: > > build > > | ports for OS release X on OS release Y, using chroot. If you're unsure > > about > > | your own method, because of OSVERSION or similar, do it using Tinderbox. > > IMHO, the usual procedure described in handbook will satisfy 95% of > upgrade scenarios. Others can install compat6x port right after (or > before) reboot.
And then upgrade all ports, while the services are running? > In any case, be free to try whatever scenario works for you, but I would > ~ not like to be the one who inherits server with such 'messy-upgrade' :| Just cause it doesn't fall into your 95% slice, doesn't make it messy. It's in fact cleaner then using compat6x, *because* compat6x doesn't fall into the category of potential causes when things don't work. FYI: tinderbox is based on the pointyhat build cluster, which makes all the 'messy' packages for the FreeBSD package servers. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"