Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:22:06 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Binary update to -STABLE? And if so, what do I get? Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ5ZAJbPFLGNzSnGTk8Yoio1h38OWYHjFRN4=kEbk3Hv1g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1sv-a6q3KfAMhZ00zo8kY2Mkk8f3=F6P3OZC926x%2BrbSA@mail.gmail.com> References: <80937c57-7757-3c70-5198-4da12c4f23d9@denninger.net> <20190213134939.GO2748@home.opsec.eu> <29563d3e-608d-591e-89bb-bf428b52bdc8@denninger.net> <CACLnyCJByvrahyk1MBdckRxpXw3-GVXDM5WMMTUUmaJRffdqmg@mail.gmail.com> <1656e7f5-ef76-55d8-f46c-416223c5f975@ingresso.co.uk> <CAN6yY1sv-a6q3KfAMhZ00zo8kY2Mkk8f3=F6P3OZC926x%2BrbSA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:13 AM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:10 AM Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> > wrote: > > On 14/02/2019 01:43, Jason Tubnor wrote: > > > I also have hit this IPv6 issue (I thought I was going crazy until I > > worked > > > it out) and other iflib issues in 12.0, which have been fixed in > -STABLE > > > that really should be patched in 12.0 or bring forward an early 12.1 > > > release. For our use case, 12.0 is just too buggy for production at > this > > > rate and we won't touch it, which is a shame because there is a lot of > > good > > > work in there that we would like to use but it is trumped by the > > breakages. > > > > Any reason behind not running STBLE out of interest ? Yes, 12 has been > > buggy with regards to networking, but these things get fixed very fast > > and I now have all my machines on the lattest STABLE in production, as > > of yesterday. > > > > -pete. > > > > Generally, not many. > > Far and away the biggest is the requirement to build from sources. It's not > a big deal for me, but if I still had many systems to deal with, that would > be a pain. > Just as one can setup a poudriere/synth system for building custom binary package repositories (so one builds packages on one system for easy installation on multiple systems using binary packages), one can also setup a custom freebsd-update server (so one builds the OS on one system, for easy installation on multiple servers using binary updates). And that can be done to track -STABLE or -CURRENT, I believe. Granted, I have never done it, nor looked too deeply into the documentation around it, but I do know it's possible. :) At least in theory. :D IOW, the days of needing to compile everything on each individual machine are behind us. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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