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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:18:11 +0000 |
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rob holland <robh@g.o> wrote: |
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> --On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 04:22:45 -0700 Matt Thrailkill |
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> <xwred1@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Firstly, this is not a flame. Please give me the benefit of the doubt |
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> in that respect :) |
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> > Just a meager user comment. I run Gentoo "stable" on my desktop and |
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> > laptop, but it seems like things still change a bit too much and too |
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> > largely to where I'd feel comfortable deploying it on a server. |
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<snip,snip> |
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> Also, I think you misunderstand "releases". 1.4 is a release of an |
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> install CD and maybe GRP. Thats it. It makes no difference to the |
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> actual system once you start running emerge sync you'll be back in the |
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> same place as someone who installed with a 1.3 install CD and has been |
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> running emerge sync. |
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I think you misunderstand the complaint here. The problem (which has |
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been brought up this list previously) is that there is no way to |
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guarantee that I can get my server back to it's current configuration if |
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I have to reinstall at a later date. Not only will new versions of |
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ebuilds have been added to the portage tree, but there is a great chance |
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that ebuild for the version of the package that I'm happy using will no |
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longer be in portage tree. What I install using the 1.3 install CD today |
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will be very different from what I installed 3 months ago. |
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If I don't want to update to the new package - and there are many |
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reasons why I would not want to - then my only optinos are not to emerge |
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sync (and miss out on the update I do need) or to manually find the |
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ebuilds I want in the attic of the web cvs gateway. |
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The lack of a "static" version of gentoo is what is keeping me from |
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using it on a server. |
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StuBear |
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