Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Weekly News Letter - "Where is Gentoo Linux 1.4"

[Stuart Bouyer]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:14:46 +0000
rob holland <robh@g.o> wrote:

>
>
> --On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 23:08:44 +0900 Stuart Bouyer
> <stubear@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> I perfectly understand the complaint you've just made. I don't think
> it was clear from the previous emails, maybe its just me.
>
> > Not only will new versions of
> > ebuilds have been added to the portage tree, but there is a great
> > chance that ebuild for the version of the package that I'm happy
> > using will no longer be in portage tree. What I install using the
> > 1.3 install CD today will be very different from what I installed 3
> > months ago.
>
> Please don't confuse which install CD you used with which packages you
> have installed. The two are completely unlrelated unless you have
> never updated anything from the stage3 build of the CD.
>
> I'd like to reiterate that "releases" are only releases of the install
> CD, not the system.
>
Yes, I'm well aware of this (I used to be the CJK developer before
real-life rudely interrupted), and this
is my biggest concern with Gentoo at the momoent, there is no way (apart
from the snapshots Christian mentioned) to ensure that 2 instalations on
the same "release" will be the same. In an office environment where I'm
mainitaining 50+ machines this is a major concern for me. I know that
with my Mandrake or RedHat install disks all machines are running the
same versions of applications, but with Gentoo this is not true unless
all machines are installed and updated at the same time. 

Sometimes Gentoo is just a little too bleeding-edge

StuBear
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