Re: Update strategy: 2.3.34 to 2.3.41 or even 2.4.9 ?

["Gavin Henry" <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

<quote who="Dave Horsfall">
> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Gavin Henry wrote:
>
>> > Agreed; we run 2.4 clients because of a timeout that we needed, but
>> > the servers are still 2.3.  The installation method
>> > is...interesting...
>> >
>>
>> Care to expand in "interesting"?
>
> The 2.4 client installs into its own path, which comes ahead of /usr/local
> and so on; the 2.3 server installs into the default location.  The tricky
> bit is that the client is part of our source control and distribution
> procedure (not to mention getting the shared libraries to be recognised;
> FreeBSD 4 and 6/7 do it in different ways, and Ubuntu does it in yet
> another way).
>
> The idea is to protect us from an unexpected 2.3 client getting installed
> as part of a requirement of some other package.
>
> When 2.4 gets marked as STABLE then I'll move to it and incorporate it
> under our scheme as well.


Ah, ok. Understood. Can't you manage package reqs/overrides with FreeBSD
pkg manager? Anyway, a bit OT now.

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