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On Mon, 2023-01-02 at 12:48 +0000, m1027 wrote: |
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> Hi and happy new year. |
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> When we create apps on Gentoo they become easily incompatible for |
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> older Gentoo systems in production where unattended remote world |
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> updates are risky. This is due to new glibc, openssl-3 etc. |
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Just update them. YOLO. |
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Seriously though, most of us run Gentoo in some sort of production |
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setting. Updating often is your best bet as it keeps the list of |
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suspects short when things do break. |
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OTOH I'm only about 15km from our servers when I set them on fire, so |
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keep that in mind if yours are on another continent. If updating |
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frequently is truly out of the question, a rolling release probably |
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isn't the best deployment target for you. |
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