Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:19:49 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: sclark46@earthlink.net Cc: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <4846F8E5.8090309@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4846F5D9.7000408@earthlink.net> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> <4846F5D9.7000408@earthlink.net>
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Stephen Clark wrote: > Scott Long wrote: >> Jo Rhett wrote: >>> Okay, I totally understand that FreeBSD wants people to upgrade from >>> 6.2 to 6.3. But given that 6.3 is still experiencing bugs with >>> things that are working fine and stable in 6.2, this is a pretty hard >>> case to make. >> >> Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you? >> >>> >>> This is also a fairly significant investment in terms of time and >>> money for any business to handle this ugprade. It totally understand >>> obsoleting 5.x now that 7.x is out. But 6.2 is barely a year old... >>> >> >> The expectation is always that newer versions of a stable branch will >> have few regressions, and thus upgrading is a low risk. >> >> Scott >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > Can just the kernel be upgraded or does all of user space have to be > upgrades to. Most things will work fine with slightly mismatched kernels, but it's not recommended to do this (some utilities may not work properly). > How would someone recommend upgrading 500 hundred remote sites spread > throughout Thoroughly test on identically configured machines, roll out incrementally and make sure you have a fallback (i.e. console access) in case something goes catastrophically wrong. Kris
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