Comments on: CGI/ssh upgrade coming on 11/22

By: b7j0c

b7j0c — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:13:32 +0000

i have recently become a member and i am glad to see freebsd 6.2 in use. i have been using it since 2.1 at work.

By: jdw

jdw — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:14:29 +0000

Barring any as-yet-undiscovered problems, it seems to have gone very smoothly and with minimal disruption. I’ll give it a week or so for people to knock it around before I call it an unqualified success, but so far so good!

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:02:09 +0000

Well, did the upgrade happen? How did it turn out?

By: ttuttle

ttuttle — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:56:27 +0000

This is very nice to see. New software is always a good thing (unless it’s broken).

By: jdw

jdw — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:13:20 +0000

Ideally there will not be any downtime unless you have specially-compiled binaries that don’t work in the new environment.

Any downtime that occurs as a result of Murphy’s Law would almost certainly affect CGI scripts (which are themselves becoming relatively rare) only.

However, as a practical matter, our list of 1,000+ packages may not be perfect. For example, it’s possible that a perl module might be missing from the list, or its latest CPAN version might not build.

We’re announcing the cutover time so that people who think they might be affected will know in advance when to check their site to make sure everything is kosher after the change.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:57:56 +0000

Is there expected downtime?

Also, does this mean that some programs will not work for some amount of time?