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On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 23:13 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> If you don't have time for reading those, you don't have time for the |
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> update, because you can't consider it done until you do, and follow thru, |
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> and failing to do so is risking spending a lot MORE time figuring out what |
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> broke and how to fix it, when things inevitably DO break, because the |
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> followups weren't done. As I said, skipping the warnings, it's not a |
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> question of if, but when, and just how bad the breakage is going to be and |
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> how long it'll take to figure out and resolve the problem, so skipping |
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> them really is NOT a viable option. |
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Duncan, you're a good man, and have helped me before. I have 14 news |
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items on this box, of which I've only read 1. None of them deal with |
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libata and the switch in the kernel from PATA drivers to SATA with the |
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change of device names, etc. required to support this. |
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> I wish there were some way to really drum this into every Gentoo user's |
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> head when they started, so they never ended up having to learn it the hard |
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> way, as you did. But as they say, if wishes were fishes... |
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You know, I set up my Gentoo boxes - 2 commercial servers and a desktop |
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box - over 5 years ago. Gentoo was a lot simpler then. There were no |
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eselect news items to read because there was no eselect news. There was |
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also no decent system to read the emerge notes, so Eldad Zack and I |
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wrote one. I've had to learn a lot of stuff "the hard way" but as the |
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years go by I have less and less patience with having to get under the |
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hood and tinker. I'm kinda stuck with what I have. My servers are |
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running mysql 5.0. If I took them off line to upgrade everything to |
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mysql 5.1, every system on the boxes on which my customers depend would |
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break - mail service, DNS, SpamAssassin, billing, to mention a few, and |
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these would be down for who knows how long. I'm almost 70 years old. |
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I'll probably sell my business and let someone else worry about this |
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crap before I get everything truly up-to-date. |
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As far as the desktop system goes, I'll probably build a 2nd box, maybe |
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running another distribution, and migrate stuff to it incrementally. My |
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time and my sanity have value, and doing this may be less costly, in the |
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long run, than trying to hack this 5-year old box and being without a |
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desktop (and my company's billing system, and my email, and my web |
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development tools, etc. etc.) until I get it figured out. |
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Enough of this geezer-rant. Peace and love to everyone in these crazy |
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times. I mean it! |
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