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On Friday 05 December 2003 20:51, Lisa Seelye wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:38, Brett Simpson wrote: |
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> > Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is this for the |
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> > current 1.4 release in a production server environment? |
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> |
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> Gentoo is flexible enough to be placed in just about any type of |
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> environment. As we move closer and closer to Portage-ng the |
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> administrator of a production server will only gain more control over |
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> the Gentoo machines he or she maintains. |
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In general when you have to maintain such a system you want to keep it as it |
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is. To avoid it breaking, or users being annoyed with changed interfaces. |
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This means that you install once, and after that want to change as little as |
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possible. With the current portage this is not easy because ebuilds disapear |
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after they have been succeeded by newer ones. "Enterprise Gentoo" basically |
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is a specially audited tarbal of ebuilds which have been taken from the main |
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tree, and for which there is a team that says. We will provide security |
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backports for this and fixes for those really annoying bugs, but mainly will |
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allow you to run the same system for a year without anything changeing away |
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from under your feet. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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