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FreeBSD is my second OS and has been for over 10 years. Prior to that I was a Slakware adherent. I do dread the update/upgrade process of FreeBSD. Beyond the

by beezle 6y ago

FreeBSD is my second OS and has been for over 10 years. Prior to that I was a Slakware adherent. I do dread the update/upgrade process of FreeBSD. Beyond the need to deal with the diff editing, I often need to rebuild/install packages. Maybe I'm doing it all wrong (likely!) but I can't recall the last time I needed to get an update to an application because of any changes to Windows. But beyond that, I do love FreeBSD

toast0 6y ago
You may want to look at the freebsdX-compat packages (or similar options in config, if you're building your own kernel/world). If you install those, your software built for older versions of FreeBSD will mostly continue to work (lsof seems to need a recompile almost always though). Fresh rebuilds are probably 'better', but there's lots of reasons you might need to run something built on an earlier version, and it should work (if not, and there's no clear reason, it's a bug).
fuball63 6y ago
This is what happened to me, I did the diffs, it said "if you built packages from ports, rebuild them now". I did everything with pkg (probably had to reinstall those, in retrospect) but I guess sudo was, by DigitalOcean (FreeBSD servers come with sudo and a freebsd user preinstalled there).