7.1

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:01:53PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> 
> > I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC 
> > status yet on 7.1
> > On  a production server you will probably wish to go with 
> > 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to 7.1 by means of 
> > freebsd-update(8) when it is released.
> > You probably don't want to risk 7.1-PRERELEASE on a server, but for 
> > anyone running workstations, desktops, laptops I think it is worth 
> > trying at this moment.
> I am a person, who made a mistake, installing 7.1 on my production 
> server (actually RELENG_7 stable, which shows up as 7.1).
> 
> My question is, how stupid is that mistake? Is it better to reinstall 
> 7.0 before something really bad happens, or can I just let it run? What 
> are the most serious bugs to expect?

It is not that big of a problem. I've been tracking -STABLE on my
destkop since 5.4 without major problems. Every once in a while you see
a failure report for RELENG_7 from the tinderbox build cluster, which
can mean that you shouldn't csup at that moment. And rarely there is a
report on the stable mailing list that something's broken and you need
to wait with updating until it's fixed.

The most effort IMHO is switching between major versions because you
then need to delete and rebuild all your installed ports.

Roland
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