From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 9:58:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285CD37B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.143.76.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.143.76]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA14154; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B4B345D.187202B@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:59:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Rasputin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jamie Bowden wrote: > You're expecting the whole world to keep the source tree on disk and > recompile the OS. Once I've done this, I cannot regress. This is > unrealistic in production environments. I can update Irix without > shutting down, and a single reboot at the end to load the new kernel. > > Everything is tracked via inst/swmgr, any part can be upgraded or > downgraded as necessary, including dependancies. In a production environment, the "downgraded" part is oftem the most critical of the two, since "upgrades" often aren't, and being able to "undo" one that is more trouble than it's worth is often worth the entire price of the system, when you are up against a wall. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message