Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:39:06 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Gerrit_K=c3=bchn?= <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why 100 packages are evil Message-ID: <571DC99A.60907@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <20160425074825.02a3b1409429ef916881ba46@aei.mpg.de> References: <E1asbZj-0003Ra-Qs@rmm6prod02.runbox.com> <76093.1461096570@critter.freebsd.dk> <5716AD65.8070007@shrew.net> <BF66EA01-E073-45F0-8F9E-22D57E8871B0@bsdimp.com> <5716FA70.4080604@freebsd.org> <57170E5D.1090701@freebsd.org> <5524F499-5042-407E-9180-43D15A53F3F0@FreeBSD.org> <7621BDAB-A409-456A-A3F1-A6CD9B371DBC@rdsor.ro> <20160420094806.GJ6614@zxy.spb.ru> <7c84f388-21dc-419f-70ce-c5369e294dab@freebsd.org> <alpine.OSX.2.00.1604222009300.15755@minnie.bitsea.ca> <34743.1461428396@critter.freebsd.dk> <571BB660.1070107@FreeBSD.org> <20160425074825.02a3b1409429ef916881ba46@aei.mpg.de>
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Gerrit Kühn wrote on 04/25/2016 07:48: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:52:32 +0100 Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> > wrote about Re: why 100 packages are evil: > > MS> > Is freebsd-update going away as result of the new packaging ? > >> Yes. It will be replaced by 'pkg upgrade' -- as far as I know, that's >> the plan for 11.0-RELEASE. > > Hm... I never had any troubles with freebsd-update, it always "just > worked" for me. OTOH, I remember having several issues with pkg, requiring > to fix databases manually and so on. I had many issues with freebsd-update in the past so the last year I converted all machines back to "installkernel & installworld" from NFS mounted build server. It is faster and predictable than freebsd-update (in my case). I hope that pkg upgrade will be good replacement one day. But I don't think it is good enough right now. Miroslav Lachman
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