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On Monday 15 November 2004 14:21, Calum wrote: |
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> On Monday 15 November 2004 12:50, Christophe Garault wrote: |
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> > This is one of my main question before having Gentoo on my servers. |
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> > What is the lifetime of ebuilds? Will I still be able to maintain |
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> > PHP4 in two years, or will I have to upgrade to PHP5 even if I don't |
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> > want new features? |
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> I wonder the same thing. I am building a server that will be very hard |
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> and expensive for me to access if anything goes wrong with the |
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> networking. |
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> I have the same questions - devfs and udev is the one I am asking |
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> myself currently. If I need to upgrade the kernel at some stage due to |
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> some exploit, or whatever, and devfs is dropped, do I trust myself to |
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> swap over to udev remotely, and get the device name changes perfect |
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> remotely? |
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> Or do I go for a slightly less mature udev now? |
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> Is there any policy document that says "Gentoo will move to UDEV (or |
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> PHP5, or Samba 4 etc) after 29th April 2005" ? |
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We don't have that kind of policy documents. Unfortunately the way to |
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operate "enterprise" gentoo is the following: |
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Create your own tree (from a certain stable point) that you manually copy |
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security fixes and local changes in. For the rest don't change the tree. |
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The default gentoo tree is like a moving target. |
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If you do this you have hit the metadistribution part of gentoo. It gives |
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the building blocks for your own distribution, and makes it a lot easier, |
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but does not make it plain simple, or no work at all. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |