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On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 08:37:52 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 12/08/2014 07:43, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> >> Plus, I refuse under any circumstances to run Gentoo on production |
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> >> > unless it's backed by a huge build farm or I have a large cluster that |
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> >> > are all identical and have very special needs. |
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> > I use Gentoo exclusively on the servers and desktops at home. I find it |
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> > easier and more logical to maintain. |
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> > I do have a VM dedicated to building binary packages though. |
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> I just got really tired of eternally being The Only One In The Place Who |
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> Knows Gentoo(tm) and who doesn't blindly "emerge -uND world" on a remote |
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> box then walk away.... |
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People who do that should be taken outside behind the chemical shed and |
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shot... |
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> At least with apt and yum juniors can be trained fairly quickly to do |
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> reliable world updates safely. This keeps the boss off my neck. That |
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> makes me happy. |
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I've seen installations start acting really weird because sysadmins decided to |
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update a redhat box the official way (yum). |
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Those usually ended up with backups being restored. |
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It doesn't matter which distribution you use, you still need to test updates |
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on a seperate environment first to ensure all the software running on the |
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environment will still work post-upgrade. |
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> On my personal servers and laptops, it will take on the order of atomic |
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> warfare to make me give up my beloved Gentoo there :-) |
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Hehe, same here. |
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