Greetings Mark, and thank you for your reply. > Is there a reason you're avoiding poudriere/pkg ? It's simple to setup and > extremely reliable. Your headaches go away because all of your package > upgrades get built in a jail and you don't have a half-broken system while > waiting for portmaster to run. I was introduced to poudriere when I solicited recommendations from the list prior to this upgrade -- portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade? After examining this port, it was clear that my whole upgrade scheme would have to completely change. While it would be nice to build everything, and then "push" the builds onto the target box. This is not an immediate option. Tho it is my intention to create a box to produce packages targeted for all of my servers. While I realize that poudriere doesn't require a separate box to do this work, I wasn't willing to take on yet another change, just to perform this upgrade. As it was; I was going from 8.3-STABLE --> 8.4 && (cv)sup --> subversion 1.7 --> subversion 1.8 -- and this was just to get to 8.4. I made the solicitation to the list, because my normal choice was using portupgrade(1). But given that it wasn't all that uncommon to run into database issues, and sometimes even upgrading portupgrade itself; given the extra dependencies. I ultimately decided on portmaster(8) because it required nothing that the system didn't already provide. I also don't believe that when facing issues, that adding additional variables makes the process any more stable -- especially given that I'm already not dealing with a completely stable system. Anyway, you asked. So now you know. :)
Thanks again, for taking the time to respond. --chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"