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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:35:13AM +0000, Andy Mayer wrote: |
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> But with Red Hat dropping Red Hat Network support for RH7.3, I am |
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> seriously considering changing our server platform over to Gentoo. |
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the company I work for are making the switch from rh 7.3 -> gentoo now. |
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> Our server requirements are not cutting edge; we only need Apache, PHP. |
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> Perl and mySql (and maybe later some mail services). My question is: if |
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> I move our server platform to Gentoo, is there an automated way of |
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> applying security patches to the currently installed software that I can |
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> "fire and forget" without fear of things breaking big time.? |
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In short, no. Not at the moment. |
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There is a glep in the works to produce a slower moving tree for |
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servers. Until that comes around you need to carefully test updates |
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before applying them to production machines. |
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We'll get there though...! |
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