Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 5/31/12 1:20 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote:
>>>> A regular debian update is 5 minutes + reboot
>>>> A regular FBSD update is about 1.5 hour + 3 reboots (after
>>>> installkernel, installworld, rebuild of ports)
>>>
>>> But how often do you need to
>>
>> As a matter of fact, too often, that's te problem.
>>
>> We have > 800 servers and I can't argue that debian's update process is much simpler and faster.
> 
> Take a look at freebsd-update:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html.
> This tracks release.
> 

As I just replied to an off-list mail, we can't use binary upgrades because:


1/ we use custom kernels with a lot of the stuff stripped

2/ we pass custom options to ports, which excludes pre-compiled packages

3/ we don't track release, I'm trying to move our boxes away from it so
we can get faster patches, we track 8-STABLE on most boxes