Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:15:25 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8) Message-ID: <20160129001525.GH88527@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <22186.43196.374050.48765@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> References: <20160127223323.GG98557@FreeBSD.org> <183431.62409.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20160128131806.GB67200@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20160128160622.GB88527@zxy.spb.ru> <22186.43196.374050.48765@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 06:48:12PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:06:22 +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> said: > > > What about upgrade strongly outdated system? > > For example 11.0 at time 18.0? I.e. packages for 11.0 don't available, > > pkg from 11.0 don't undertund package base from 18.0 and etc. > > We've never supported this for source upgrades; I don't see any reason > to expect it to work for binary upgrades either. At a minimum you > should expect to have to upgrade 11.0 -> latest 11.x -> latest 12.x -> > ... -> latest 17.x -> 18.0. You miss some points. Source upgrades suported over-release upgrade (currently 10-STABLE can be upgraded from 7.0, see Makefile.inc1). Source upgrade is self-contained and don't depend from environment. Contrary to binary upgrade may depend of environment: presents pkg.txz on ftp.freebsd.org, freebsd.org ovned by project and etc. As result, in case of bad design, you can't upgrade from 11.0 nowhere (ex: packages for 11.x outdated and deleted, pkg.txz from latest suported release can't be run on 11.0, pkg from 11.0 can't be parsed latest format). I am not averse to binary upgrade path like 11.0-12.last-14.last-15.last-16.last-18.0. I am disagree case when impossible to upgrade outdated install (because url is now incorrect, packages for outdated release removed or lost and etc).home | help
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