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 do you handle such cases?
Pretty much as you suggest below:
Same questions for php upgrades: on php5 upgrade, all the other php5-*
packages have to be compiled too, and keeping the webserver running
during this time is probably not the best idea.
What I'm going to try is to prepare packages of the ports I have to
upgrade on a dev/test server, and then install them with pkg_add: is
that the "right way" ?
You have a build box that you generate new tarballs of the packages you
want to update (via "make package", "make package-recursive",
"portupgrade -p", etc), which you can then test and make sure they
behave sensibly, and then use these to rapidly update your production
machines with minimal downtime.
I have found that the ports-mgmt/tinderbox port is very useful for
building and maintaining up to date packages with custom patchs, or non
default knobs set. I have a pair of dedicated build servers that it
runs on but I cant see a reason why it could not run on any old system
on your network.
You can then use pkg_add/pkg_delete to do the upgrade very quickly.
Tom
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