Could please someone explain what "Exp builds", "Package builds" and "Qat builds" means on this site?
My impression: it depends
E.g.: I'm running a Navidrome server at home. It was on quarterly and did not receive important security fixes at all. Why? Probably because Navidrome has no feature and bugfix releases. Just run the most recent feature release to also getsecurity fixes. So I've switched that server to latest.For me it seems to be random, which builds are started first and therefore finish first. Could anybody clarify?
Only look at the package builds, those are the ones that will end up in the various repositories. You don't need to worry about the others.
nodejs.org
Yeah, it's gone beyond embarrassing. I mean, FreeBSD was always lagging behind with security patches compared to most Linux distributions, but it's been days now.
Most of the servers I manage that are on FreeBSD and run PHP are still down because they're far from critical. There's one where after a day I couldn't justify waiting any longer, I've gone the ports route: checked out ports from git on the quarterly branch and installed all PHP packages I have installed on that server from ports. It should be OK since I'm using both the quarterly branch from the ports repo and the quarterly package repo for binary packages, so as soon as the packages are available in the pkg repository I'll just reinstall the lot from there.
Linux doesn't take care of their distributions as a whole like FreeBSD does. Linux only takes care of their kernel. FreeBSD is a cohesive, complete system that all works together. When someone else screws things up, they don't rely on some outsiders to guarantee their work.
www.php.net
I would imagine that to be correct if one is staying on the same base (quarterly vs latest). If you have been pulling quarterly and switch to latest I think the pkg update -f is almost mandatory.
Of the three servers I manage, on one that is for testing, I made the change from quarterly to latest like this:
# mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
# cat << 'EOF' > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
FreeBSD-ports: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest"
}
EOF
# pkg upgrade
# pkg info | grep 'php8[2-5]-[0-9].*'
mod_php85-8.5.12 PHP Scripting Language (8.5.X branch)
php85-8.5.12 PHP Scripting Language (8.5.X branch)Cool. I wonder if pkg upgrade pulls in the "latest" catalogs based on the current config. As in when configured for quarterly, pkg upgrade pulls in that catalog, then if user switches to latest, the next pkg upgrade pulls in the "latest catalog for latest" before running upgrade.