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>I personally don't like that idea and I'll give you a real-world example |
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>why. We have three web nodes atm. They all run the following software: |
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>AxKit 1.6.1 |
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>libxslt 1.0.31 |
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>libxml2 2.5.6 |
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>That particular combination works. I know it works. It has worked for |
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>months. However, if I upgrade either libxslt to 1.0.33 or libxml2 to 2.5.8, |
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>Weird Stuff starts happening and my life quickly becomes unpleasant. I'm |
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>sure the issues are fixable, but the point is that even minor version bumps |
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>can cause serious problems with production systems. In my mind, that |
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>defeats the purpose of a stable/frozen tree. |
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well, but this looks like an example of 'why you can't have frozen tree |
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suitable for (almost) everyone' |
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above versions work for you |
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what if someone needs higher version of libxml or libxslt because of |
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cooperation with other products ? |
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i'm running apache1 on production servers, but also the latest versions |
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of ssl (0.9.7)/ssh |
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other people may want to run apache2 on their servers but use openssl |
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0.9.6 -> what then ? |
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currently, i'm doing updates manually, trying to 'freeze' most of the |
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software apart from couple of projects where i'm running either |
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not supported version (not supported by portage) or the bleeding edge |
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in my humble opinion, it would be better (for my purposes) to have more |
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'user friendly' way of configuring which packages and under which |
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circumstances i want to update (or get a notification about an important |
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update) when i do emerge -u world |
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some kind of configurable filtering with possibility to do |
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customizations also on per-package level |
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i really don't mind spending several days setting all these things up if |
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it means that the next 3 months or more i can just regularly do emerge |
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-u (or whatever else) to get all updates i need and skip the rest |
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in the fact, having such configuration possibilities, i call it |
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'customized portage profile'; the idea of 'frozen tree' or 'quarterly |
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updates' can be achieved by preconfigured profiles -> they will take |
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care of installing preselected version of packages |
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regards, |
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martin hajduch |
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