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On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 10:39 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o> wrote: |
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> > So I'm planning to update my local <200 package versions once a year or |
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> > much less often, or when a specific feature is required, while still |
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> I would be concerned with this. It is a known deficiency wrt Gentoo |
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> that once systems are not updated for longer than a year, you hit |
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> extreme difficulty to get it upgraded most of the time. |
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Unfortunately, I do have to support production environments not being |
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upgraded for 3-5 years and more. Because they managed to use another |
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slice of their old software, they might want to get just a few bugfixes |
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without upgrading their whole system... |
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/haubi/ |
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Michael Haubenwallner |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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