Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:42:11 +0100 From: Joe Holden <mail@m.jwh.me.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why 100 packages are evil Message-ID: <571DCA53.8090900@m.jwh.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <571DC99A.60907@quip.cz> 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> <571DC99A.60907@quip.cz>
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On 25/04/2016 08:39, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > 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 As another useless datapoint - I've not had any real issues with freebsd-update and I've been using it since 6.x, same with pkg(ng) after the initial bugs were ironed out, this is on 30-40 production servers.
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