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To: "Tonix (Antonio Nati)" <tonix@interazioni.it>
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On Fri, 22 May 2009 11:06:49 +0200 Tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:

> I'm in the phase of planning my new generation of FreeBSD servers, and
> I would love to make them more easy to upgrade.
> Main problem I have currently is I do not want any source code on
> production server, so freebsd-update is welcome, but... what about
> packages?
> I would use packages, but they are not easy to upgrade, while ports
> can be easy to upgrade, but need to have sources an servers.

> What do you suggest me? What is currently done on other environments?

We use ports-mgmt/tinderbox to build custom packages and then install
them via "portupgrade -PP". But we are planning to switch to pkg_upgrade
from sysutils/bsdadminscripts for package upgrading. The latter needs
only INDEX file fetched from a package server.


WBR
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