From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 11:03:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA8E1065671 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 11:03:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4128FC14 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 11:03:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [213.51.146.189] (port=42119 helo=smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JsyUH-0002eG-9B for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 13:04:05 +0200 Received: from cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl ([84.25.65.88]:5049 helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JsyTC-0002tP-1d for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 13:02:58 +0200 Received: from ramses.egypt.nl (ramses.egypt.nl [192.168.13.8]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8876639803 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 13:02:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ramses.egypt.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ramses.egypt.nl (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m45B2v5Y009010 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 13:02:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: (from www@localhost) by ramses.egypt.nl (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m45B2vSL009009 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 May 2008 13:02:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from 172.24.46.209 (172.24.46.209 [172.24.46.209]) by www.boosten.org (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 05 May 2008 13:02:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20080505130256.5sai63nsgooooc80@www.boosten.org> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 13:02:56 +0200 From: Peter Boosten To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home> <481ED9C7.4050209@laposte.net> <20080505124117.B28398@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <481EE670.8010305@lc-words.com> In-Reply-To: <481EE670.8010305@lc-words.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.6) X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) Subject: Re: living with freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 11:03:00 -0000 Quoting Zbigniew Szalbot : > This got me interested. So basically for a server, you don't do any > upgrades unless there are security issues to solve or new features that > you need? > > It seems to me that sometimes if you have waited with an upgrade for > too long, it is more difficult to upgrade than it would have been if > you had followed all small updates which appeared along the way... > I think you have to differentiate between updates and upgrades. I consider an upgrade moving from one release to another (say from 6.2 to 6.3), while security patches are updates. I always run updates, but I don't always follow upgrades. Recently I upgraded one older machine from 5.5 to 6.2 (en even more recent to 6.3). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org