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On 07/01/11 07:56, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> As a user, if a person hasn't upgraded in about 6 months, they may as well |
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>> reinstall anyway. That is usually the advice given on -user. After a year |
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>> without updating, it is certainly easier and most likely faster to |
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>> reinstall. |
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> Except for the fact that while you upgrade, you still have a usable |
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> system. Reinstallation means a massive time-sink during which your |
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> machine is completely unusable. This is not an option for a lot of |
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> people. |
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I'd call myself an "affected user" in this context: |
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As (lazy) administrator of some servers (hardened) and desktops (stable), |
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both virtualbox servers and guests, as well as an x86 binhost vm for the |
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laptop, and the only requirement of keep-it-working, I'm doing the upgrades |
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somewhat seldom: up to 1.5 years, especially for the hardened servers. |
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As I don't care for compilation time (the servers are up 24/7), my thought |
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to still allow for a somewhat stable upgrade path: Regularly (twice a year?) |
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take a tree snapshot to keep around (infra? releng?), and provide some mechanism |
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(eselect?) to pick such an old snapshot instead of the current (rsync) one. |
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Then, run each (half-year) update within a couple of days... |
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Maybe the tree snapshots are there already within the live-cds: Do we aim |
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to provide an upgrade path from one live-cd snapshot to the next one? |
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/haubi/ |
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Michael Haubenwallner |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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