Re: user feedback

infoomatic wrote in <5bd8bb99-d856-4074-8ce0-4806fab30689@gmx.at>:
> I kept my VM around, and upgraded to Beta 2 a few hours after announcement.
> However, I have noticed that only few packages upgraded from b1 to b2, so in
> the end I had a mix of b1 and b2 packages installed. Is this fine and as it
> should be for future installations?

this is normal.  for each build, only packages which have actually
changed get a new version, and not much changed overall between
b1 and b2.

> [...] Now having packages with b1, b2, b3 it seems a bit odd since I
> don't know if the pkg upgrade just had an error or the mirror was not
> in sync or something else did not work the way it should.
 
this is not that different from how freebsd-update worked, e.g. when an
update doesn't touch the kernel, so you're running 15.0-RELEASE-p1 but
uname says 15.0-RELEASE.  at least with packages, you can tell what the
actual installed version is, and compare it to the versions listed in
the EN/SA.

the alternative would be that updating a single file for 15.0-RELEASE-p1
would require building a new version of every package just to update the
version number, which is not reasonable.

> Will all new package versions be accompanied by erratas or security
> announcements once 15.0-RELEASE is released?

all updates to a release branch (e.g., 15.0-RELEASE) are published as
EN/SA.