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On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:58 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> Stupid question .. why does webapps.eclass have SLOT=${PVR} ? |
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If you're running a hosting server, and have many customers using the |
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same app, it may not be practical to bump them all at the same time. |
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* They may have different busy periods during the day, making it |
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impossible to schedule a common downtime. |
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* Many upgrades require manual steps - it's less disruptive to upgrade |
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each installation one at a time. |
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* Different customers may want or need to run different versions of the |
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same app. If a customer is happy with what they have, they may not wish |
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to upgrade. |
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> This |
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> basically means that even a bump from foo-webapp-1.0-r1 to |
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> foo-webapp-1.0-r2 will not unmerge foo-webapp-1.0-r1 ... |
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If you don't have USE=vhosts set, then the eclass will automatically |
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unmerge the older version. If you have USE=vhosts set, then you're |
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telling Portage that you need the flexibility of running webapp-config |
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manually. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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