beadm vs bectl

[Deleted member 63822]

Which is recommended? I found bectl is part of the system. From the man page I found it has more features than beadm.

 

[usdmatt]

HISTORY
bectl is based on beadm(1) and was implemented as a project for the 2017
Summer of Code, along with libbe(3).

Effectively bectl is a base system replacement to provide the features that used to require installing a port.

 

[Mjölnir]

bectl(8) has had some issues in the past. Don't know how many of these are fixed. beadm(1) is mature. If I got it right, they do not interfere, i.e. each can work on boot environments created by the other.

 

[forquare]

This question was asked in the BSDNow podcast, episode 366 at 00:50:10.

 

[scottro]

There have been some issues with bectl. They should be fixed, but I ran into one last month. As was said, you can use either one without breaking the other. The linked thread shows an old problem that seems to be basically fixed, though I managed to run into. it.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/cannot-destroy-a-boot-environment.73296