Zafer Aydogan wrote:
hello list, My company would consider to switch to NetBSD with their hosting, if following ciriterias are met: - Is it possible to update the apache webserver without interrupting the running httpd service during the update ? - Is it possible to update mysql without interrupting the mysql service during the update ? - Is it possible to install, add, remove modules for php without interrupting remaining services ? and if, how ?
By using binary packages, the critical services can be kept online during an update. (At least I think so.) I am using a chrooted pbulk for building the packages.
There is a big problem left: "pkg_add -u" (for updating binary packages) behaves very badly when something goes wrong (see PR 37277). This needs to be fixed before binary packages can be used in reliable environments. Maybe using "pkg_add -uu" helps a bit, but it looks even more risky to me.
Roland