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Neil Bothwick schrieb: |
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> On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:08:34 +0200, hw wrote: |
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>> infrequently update Gentoo because I´m *always* running into problems |
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>> like this. |
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> Every time, or is that just hyperbole? |
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every time |
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>> 'Infrequently' means about every 3 months at home, and not |
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>> since, IIRC, 2015-02 here at work. The last update at home got stalled |
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>> because perl cannot be updated, and I haven´t had the time to look into |
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>> that to finish it. |
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> Problems like this are usually resolved quickly. Syncing and updating a |
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> couple of days later would probably have sorted it. |
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That´s what I was hoping, but the problem remained. I can´t try it now |
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because I don´t have internet at home atm. |
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>> The other reason is that it takes time to update the kernel when a new |
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>> one comes along, so updating like every week is not feasible. And I |
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>> don´t want to reboot all the time. |
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> You don't need to boot into every new kernel that hits portage. As long |
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> as your current kernel has no security issues you can stick with it. |
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> Plenty of people use Gentoo with only the LTS kernels. |
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Probably, yes, but who knows if everything works fine with an older kernel? |
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New versions of some software might require a sufficiently recent kernel. |
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>> Besides, I don´t want to update too frequently because there may issues |
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>> with new versions of software. |
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> If you use the stable arch, you don't get brand new versions. Packages |
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> are normally a month old before they hit stable. |
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That doesn´t mean that things might stop working, and besides replacing the |
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software itself, there might be some updating procedure that needs to be |
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followed. |
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>> If you say that you need to update more frequently than every 3 months |
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>> for not to have problems with the update process itself, I can only |
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>> conclude that Gentoo is entirely unsuited for servers --- and for home |
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>> use as well other than for test machines perhaps. |
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> It may be more a case of Gentoo being unsuited for you, your |
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> expectations and your preferred way of working. In fact, any rolling |
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> release distros sounds like it won't be right for you. |
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Who can afford to run into problems every time they update when they need |
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to keep things working? Problems with the very update process itself is |
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something you shouldn´t have to expect at all. |
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