From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 20:19:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5918106566B for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:19:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFFD8FC24; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:19:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4846F8E5.8090309@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:19:49 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sclark46@earthlink.net References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> <4846F5D9.7000408@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <4846F5D9.7000408@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jo Rhett , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:19:49 -0000 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