From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 05:54:08 2011 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 BE160106566C for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:54:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@alogreentechnologies.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518218FC14 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amd620.ovitrap.com ([49.128.188.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p2C5rtn6004635; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:54:03 -0700 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: ALO Green Technologies Pte Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:55:50 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.5.4; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103121355.50271.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> Cc: Ed Flecko Subject: Re: "Best practices" on upgrading, etc. 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: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:54:08 -0000 Hi, On Saturday 12 March 2011 05:03:22 Ed Flecko wrote: > > I have a production server running FBSD 8.1 (and I'm following the > errata branch) that works just fine, with no problems. > > I see that the "Production Release" of 8.2 is available. > > Obviously, 8.2 has features that 8.1 does not, but I guess my primary > questions is: > > 1.) If you have a production server that's running well (and is fully > patched, i.e. following the errata branch), is there a compelling > reason to upgrade or do most people do it because there are features just do use your words: if you have a running system which does not have any problems, wait at least for maybe a month before you install the upgrade. There have been times when even FreeBSD gave problems after an upgrade a few days after release. > in the new release that you want/need? I guess what I'm really asking > is if it makes more sense to take the "if it aint broke - don't fix > it" mindset or should you really consider upgrading when a new version > is released??? > I just upgraded to 8.2 on my workstation having a fully operating 8.1 installation on the second disk. > upgrade the ports If you upgrade only the minor version number, a portupgrade is normally not needed. At least my ports installed this January still work. It is different on a major version number chance. Anyway, I would suggest to stay with the 8.x branch for this machine until the 10 branch is reliable. Erich