Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time

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From: Steve Shockley
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 8:17 pm

Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:

Simple way: upgrade every six months, and follow the -stable branch.

Complex way: Follow -current, upgrade your machines almost constantly.

If you have anything approaching "production", run -stable.  Downgrading 
is difficult, and sooner or later you'll hit something that makes your 
life difficult, like changing a major feature (ipf -> pf) or upgrading 
to packages that were built the day the shared library numbers change.


You can do an "unpack the install files over the running OS" upgrade, 
that's detailed in the upgrade guide in the FAQ.  Better yet, you can 
put two machines together with CARP and not have any downtime at all.
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keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, Nenhum_de_Nos, (Wed Oct 31, 7:28 pm)
Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, David Clymer, (Wed Oct 31, 7:53 pm)
Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, Nick Holland, (Wed Oct 31, 8:05 pm)
Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, Steve Shockley, (Wed Oct 31, 8:17 pm)
Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, Patrick Hemmen, (Thu Nov 1, 11:26 am)
Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, Nenhum_de_Nos, (Thu Nov 1, 11:46 am)
Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, Hannah Schroeter, (Thu Nov 1, 1:28 pm)
Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, Joachim Schipper, (Thu Nov 1, 3:14 pm)
Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, Steve Shockley, (Thu Nov 1, 7:46 pm)
Re: keeping OBSD up to date and secure throughout time, Nenhum_de_Nos, (Sat Nov 3, 1:50 am)