Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 17:09:27 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, estartu@ze.tum.de Subject: Re: No Extended Support Version right now? Message-ID: <20180809170927.24554931.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> In-Reply-To: <e6617834-69e8-bce5-2603-42d1a5731a85@netfence.it> References: <f76c72f0-449b-91e8-b46f-55e9d931d8fc@ze.tum.de> <8F86D7B0-6E3A-40EE-A8B3-E5209AB579A5@mail.sermon-archive.info> <45977e25-80e4-9bb9-e36a-bb7d6e7e7dbb@ze.tum.de> <e6617834-69e8-bce5-2603-42d1a5731a85@netfence.it>
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Hi, On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 09:52:49 +0200 Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > On 8/9/18 9:29 AM, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > > > Updating each of them to the next Major release takes about 2h > > (really stupid things like FreeBSD id changes in config files are > > time consuming and annoying). > > Are you talking about mergemaster? > Are you aware of the -F and -U options (which have been somewhat > recently added)? > > Notice: I'm not trying to convince you that upgrading so frequently > is a good thing (as I said I agree with you); I'm just trying to ease > the pain. > I was too fast with my former e-mail. Of course, mergemaster is for FreeBSD itself. It is less a problem of mergemaster as of having to touch a running system in a serious way. We have also the problem having to maintain a number of machines and decided to create our in-house solution. Yeah, it can leave the house after it works but it must work first. Erich
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