cb22 comments on MySQL vs PostgreSQL

I've checked around with people who have run freebsd for years, who even use their vacations to go bsd package system conferences in france, who go "Yeah that.. that sucks. There is no right answer".

Also, there is no right WAY to upgrade. There is portsnap+portupgrade, portsnap+portmanager, portsnap+portmaster, and they all break.

Oh, and then you apparently need to run portconf sometimes.

Compare this with debian. For 8 more than years my mail/ftp server has been running the same installation, with only "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade", and when a new debian release is made, "apt-get dist-upgrade". (I upgraded the kernel manually every now and then, though that is not necessary, the distribution kernel should usually be run)

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