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Robert Welz wrote: |
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> Jan Meier wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> how is the status of the stable portage tree? Is it already available? |
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>> I am really interested in it because I am tired of frequently updates |
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>> on my server just because there is a new version. Doing only security |
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>> update would be nice. |
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>> Regards |
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>> |
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>> Jan |
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> |
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> I have noticed three updates to baselayout in three days. Is there a |
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> real reason for that high frequency of updates? I have the problem of |
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> etc-update on 14 servers and really could spend my time on something |
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> more productive i.e. learning ldap, fixing sguile and debugging xen for |
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> nfs. Now I fix all those init.d files all the day. |
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The general complaint I'm hearing about Gentoo is the lack of |
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configuration stability. Updates that aren't backward-compatible |
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are a pain. I had to reboot a system that hadn't been booted in |
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about a year and the modules didn't load because of the changes to |
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modules.autoload. I've had to clean up Apache conf files 'cause they |
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moved. I've had to deal with moving to the new "modular" xorg (and |
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try to hunt down all the X tools I used to have). Not to mention |
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the baselayout changes... |
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I used to laugh at http://www.funroll-loops.org/ but lately it |
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really does seem that the distro is being managed by those on |
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the young side. |
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Not that any other Linux distro is any better. I'm contemplating |
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going back to BSD, which is my company's standard anyway. |
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-Mark |
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