Re: Good practices with bectl

Reply: Graham Perrin : "Re: Good practices with bectl"
In reply to: Nuno Teixeira : "Good practices with bectl"
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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:47:18 UTC

On 20/09/2022 23:14, Nuno Teixeira wrote:

> Hello to all,
>
> I will use becl for the first time for current upgrades.
> Just to check that I'm thinking correctly:
>
> Create a test environment for upgrade:
> > bectl create -r test (should I use '-r'?)
> Activate test:
> > bectl activate test
> > reboot
> ...
> > upgrade OS on test
> …
If using freebsd-update(8) to perform the upgrade: please be aware that, 
with recent releases of the OS, there's automated creation of a snapshot 
of a boot environment.

<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD>, 
CreateBootEnv

Omitted from release notes; sorry.