Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 09:13:20 -0400 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD did it again (still) Message-ID: <3cbeca30-8801-d800-edcb-f64ea2f079e0@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1499345128.3276.2.camel@gmail.com> References: <27b3c757-1f00-a033-03f6-303a82ab65f2@columbus.rr.com> <3ce31ee2-5e35-d31c-71ca-dc95ece2dd61@intersonic.se> <020431a6-1a7d-d80e-0725-585c21f3ef27@columbus.rr.com> <563b14d5-ebfb-62b6-28ac-3ebbd663d067@intersonic.se> <e2cab146-89c9-23b0-e6ac-6222d8747277@columbus.rr.com> <8c1bb853-5eb0-4fae-ee26-5ff4684c2b3a@saunalahti.fi> <1499345128.3276.2.camel@gmail.com>
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On 07/06/17 08:45, Stephen Black wrote: > Not trying to be a smart ass, really, but personally think you may need > to consider your upgrade strategy. You kind of gloss over the fact > you're upgrading from 10.1 (which was released sometime in 2014) to > 11.0-p10, which is fairly recent. That is roughly three years of > development and changes, in essence, a whole lot of work. You didn't > mention checking /usr/ports/UPDATING, which certainly would show tons > of changes, especially for someone building from source. I would > absolutely expect an upgrade aproached in this way to fail, and would > be shocked if it "just worked". Sending an email just complaining about > something that is completely free for you to use helps no one, and > aggravates people who appreciate all the work that goes into > maintaining a completely free OS. > Well FYI the upgrade base 10.1 to 11.0-p10 when as expected. Update the ports to the current quarterly was a tragic happening. I have done this before upgrade a desktop from 10.3 to 11.0-p0 then to 11.0-p9. Again the ports just did not work as it resulted in a broken desktop each time. I started using the quarterly ports branch thinking I get some stablilty. No stability to be found. Should I user be able to update without going thru a weeks worth of debugging? I think that is not too much to ask. I have doing this since RedHat 4.0 in the mid 1990's. I know how to build software. When I was using LFS I could go from LFS 5.0 to LFS 6.0 all the way to LFS &.5 and it always just worked. I thinking I'll need to return to my own scratch built linux system to find some stability I am looking for. FreeBSD not so much. Maybe OpenBSD will prove to be stable. I am not looking to update my system more than I change underwear, so I can chase the "Oh I have to have the latest". I am looking for stable/working. BTW have have you contributed to the thread?
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