[BUGS] question on up keeping of a production server

[goku -]

oh... I see your point.  so for every release for example 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and
so on you will do your routine to get to the next version right?


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

>
> On 05/06/2008, at 6:58 PM, goku - wrote:
>
> > nteresting... so you don't recommend using the freebsd-update. so if
> > there is any minor or major security fixes, you would recommend just
> > to cvsup then do a make build world and make install world.  or
> > would you just update the patches one at a time.
>
> It's not anything really negative against using the binary update it's
> just that I prefer to compile the system with MY settings. The binary
> updates are compiled with conservative settings to promote
> compatibility above performance, the main benefit to that is it has
> been tested and known to work and downloading a compiled binary is
> generally faster than compiling from the sources yourself. Using the
> make system with sources from the cvs allows you to compile for the
> best performance on your hardware, but that opens up the possibility
> of doing something that will cause your system to be unstable or not
> work at all (for example compiling the kernel with -O3 is a bad idea,
> personally I compile the kernel with just -O and the rest of the
> system with -O2) and depending on the processing power of the system
> can take quite a long time to complete. That said, if you're running a
> critical production server, you should really have a backup system
> that you would test any updates etc on first, so you would know if it
> worked and you wouldn't be using the resources of the actual server to
> do the compile..
>
> Generally I would run csup a couple of times (to make sure the sources
> are stable), then make the buildworld and possibly kernel targets,
> drop to single user, installworld, mergemaster, reboot. Which results
> in less than 30sec of down time.
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