Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 11:24:30 +0700 From: Erich <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <2683532.ZXZgRCPEVi@x220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20120602195022.GG5335@home.opsec.eu> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> <95D35900-AC63-4948-B54F-40041FFCB232@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20120602195022.GG5335@home.opsec.eu>
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Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 9:50:22 Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > The point he made was actually not a matter of people not reading > > UPDATING but that UPDATING is oftentimes not updated until after > > the disruptive/potentially dangerous change has already hit the > > ports tree. > > > > I'm not sure what the solution is for the end user. > > We have our reference hosts, do daily portupgrades and on those days > where all looks fine, pkg_create the whole collection and pkg_delete/pkg_add > to production hosts. > > Still not perfect, but 'good enough'. > > isn't this what I just suggested to be done by the team? Give the ports tree a new version number and people can fall back to this then. Isn't this solution too simple to be done? Erich
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