>> FWIW, Yahoo! tracks -stable branches, not point releases. > > I'm curious about this (and stealing the dead thread). > > How does one track -stable in an enterprise environment? I assume that what > you mean is "we pick points in -stable that we believe are stable enough and > create a snapshot from this point that we test and roll out to production" > ...? Am I wrong? > > I mean, I guess Yahoo has enough resources to literally run every commit to > -stable through a full test cycle and push it out to every machine, but my > mind boggles to imagine the manpower cost of doing so. (and to justify the > manpower cost versus the gain from doing so...)
I only have a handfull of web-servers so I do a 'make buildworld' and -kernel on one server and then nfs-mount it from the other servers (remember mount-root-option if doing this). I don't have any problems running stable if it works. So I usually just upgrade one server to whatever stable is at that moment and if it runs without problems for a while I upgrade the remaining servers a few days apart. When it comes to our db-server I usually track release, but since my web-servers and db-server is the same hardware I'm somewhat confident that an upgrade to stable will work if the need to do so arises. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
