Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8)

[NGie Cooper]

> On Jan 28, 2016, at 08:06, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:


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> What about upgrade strongly outdated system?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.

This is an important question to ask and solve. There might be points in time where seamless upgrades are not possible, and instead you need to hop from release to release (this is not ideal, but it could happen).

For instance, at $work we're allowing upgrades from version X to Y, and Y to Z, but not direct upgrades from X to Z. Part of the rationale behind this change is, deprecation of platforms and the change in upgrade framework, which requires upgrading from blessed releases proven to work with the new framework.

Thanks,
-NGie