Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-server

[Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen]

On Friday 26 November 2004 17:17, Dan Meltzer wrote:
> One thing I have always noticed about gentoo is that it is lacking in
> the server department, for whatever reason.  I was wondering if there
> are any plans to remedy this, I have thought about a few possible
> ideas.
>
> 1) add an emerge server-system class, this class would contain apps
> that may not be as new, but they would be known to be stable, and work
> well with everything.  THe last thing a server admin needs is to be
> debugging which package in an emerge -aDuv world is messing up.
>
> 2) make better use of glsa-check, maybe an addon that parses that
> output and automatically does upgrades known not to break anything.
>
> 3)  I dunno.... what do you think?
>
> Is this a possibilty//has it been talked about at all?
This is actively been worked on. See: 

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/index.xml

and for a stable portage tree see:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0019.html

We're currently in the process of selecting which packages should go into the 
proposed stable tree.

PS: Perhaps gentoo-server is a better list to discuss this on:-)

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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz)
Operational Manager
Gentoo Linux Security Team