From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 9 10:33:08 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2280910602CA for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 10:33:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from estartu@ze.tum.de) Received: from mail.ze.tum.de (mail.ze.tum.de [IPv6:2001:4ca0:2e03::1:2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.ze.tum.de", Issuer "Zertifizierungsstelle der TUM" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A38C8BC6E for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 10:33:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from estartu@ze.tum.de) Received: from etustar.ze.tum.de (etustar.ze.tum.de [129.187.39.200]) by mail.ze.tum.de (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w79AX4Ks043235 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 9 Aug 2018 12:33:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from estartu@ze.tum.de) Subject: Re: No Extended Support Version right now? To: Andrea Venturoli , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <8F86D7B0-6E3A-40EE-A8B3-E5209AB579A5@mail.sermon-archive.info> <45977e25-80e4-9bb9-e36a-bb7d6e7e7dbb@ze.tum.de> From: Gerhard Schmidt Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Organization: =?UTF-8?Q?Technische_Universit=c3=a4t_M=c3=bcnchen_-_WWW_und_O?= =?UTF-8?Q?nline_Services?= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 12:33:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:33:08 -0000 Am 09.08.2018 um 09:52 schrieb Andrea Venturoli: > On 8/9/18 9:29 AM, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > >> Updating each of them to the next Major release takes about 2h (really >> stupid things like FreeBSD id changes in config files are time consuming >> and annoying). > > Are you talking about mergemaster? > Are you aware of the -F and -U options (which have been somewhat > recently added)? > > Notice: I'm not trying to convince you that upgrading so frequently is a > good thing (as I said I agree with you); I'm just trying to ease the pain. No I'm Talking about freebsd-update upgrade that does the same shit for every file I touched. The more you customize the more files you get. Regards Estartu