[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 5/2/21 6:35 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 2021, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>
>> My personal preference is for "all known bugs fixed" release points. If 
>> someone wants to track changes more often then the "pkg update" mechanism 
>> provides that.
> 
> The "all known bugs fixed" release points are not even remotely possible given 
> the rolling build/release model.  The release is just a snapshot in time.  Even 
> major Linux distributions and FreeBSD are not able to accomplish what you 
> describe.  The internal processes that Sun used to internally test and "bake" a 
> release for a couple of years are not possible.

Even those never produced a "all known bugs fixed" release - just a "all bugs
considered to be showstoppers for the release" fixed.  I doubt there has been
any "all known bugs fixed" release of a significant operating system in many
decades - there's just so many things that can break that you have to have a
cutoff point to determine what's truly going to hold up your release and what
you can accept and leave until later.  (And later may never come - there are
some bugs that lingered for decades in Sun's bug tracker, never getting fixed
or closed, and I'm sure the same is true in Linux & BSD distros as well.)

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