Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Javier Barrio <coder@×××××.org>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Advice on Gentoo Servers
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:19:01
Message-Id: 20060409111642.464323cd@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Advice on Gentoo Servers by Technomancer
1 I've been running Gentoo on some production servers the last three
2 years without problems and headaches.
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4 Upgrading is not as problematic as you could think. Is just a matter of
5 thinking twice before emerging new versions of important packages. For
6 example: if you upgrade MySQL from 4.1 to 5 you need to know that PHP
7 will need to be recompiled, so recompile it before restarting the
8 services, etc. revdep-rebuild et al are your friends, you know =B^)
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10 GnuPG key ID 0x6D2FF8B5 @ pgp.escomposlinux.org
11 Gentoo Linux on IA32|sparc64
12 http://fluzo.org/
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