From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 21:48:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27DB5D64 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:48:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70908FC12 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.2.117.99]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qAOLmdP8013104 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:48:39 GMT (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.7.1 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk qAOLmdP8013104 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/qAOLmdP8013104; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none (insecure policy) Message-ID: <50B140AC.2000804@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:48:28 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready? References: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB3EE551347934A3FA8AF2E7C" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:48:44 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB3EE551347934A3FA8AF2E7C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 24/11/2012 16:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready > for production or should I wait a while yet? I ordinarily avoid x.0 > releases of anything and I know 9.1 is soon going to be with us. 9-STABLE works for me. I've run into a few quite minor bugs, but certainly nothing really significant. Stability is rock-solid as ever. > In a related note, if I do move to 9.x is it sufficient to grab the > appropriate source tree and compile world and kernels, install and > reboot? That is, it is reasonable to do an in-place upgrade. This > is how I migrated 4->6, 6->7, and 7->8 and I am hoping this is till > the case since a complete reinstall is painful and slow. Upgrading by compiling world+kernel from source is an effective method. Works just as well for 8->9 as for any of the previous upgrades you mention. It is not however sufficient to get you a completely upgraded system: you will still have to re-install all of your ports. Otherwise, as you end up trying to upgrade ports by ones and twos over time, you'll end up with a complete rat's nest of contradictory shared library dependencies and programs crashing left, right and centre. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enigB3EE551347934A3FA8AF2E7C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCxQLYACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyt6wCfUG06wB66hrma0kmBU8e3Pprp tW0An1nXlkKZoLESaSV1FHJcS7NE9MH1 =beIA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB3EE551347934A3FA8AF2E7C--