FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Wed May 15 16:28:31 UTC 2019


On 5/15/19 6:16 PM, Matt Garber wrote:

> Exactly. If batching 8 (or more) individual bugs/issues together into
> one release is really causing admin/manpower overload and angst,then
> maybe it’s time in your situation to use the binary updates (which
> would only be a single `freebsd-update` and reboot, so there would
> be no ‘sudden unplanned outages’) rather than tracking src and
> remediating each individual bug at a time.

Maybe I'm dumb, but I still don't get what "src vs binary" has to do 
with "8 vs 1"...
I ran a single "svn update; make buildworld; make kernel; make 
installworld; reboot", not 8...

  bye
	av.


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