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Am 07.01.2015 um 13:47 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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>> I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server. |
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>> The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh* |
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> Don't waste your time (you are already experiencing the full reason why). |
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> Backup data and configs, reinstall Gentoo, restore data and configs. |
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> Downtime? Of course. A few hours. Customer needs to understand he |
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> brought this upon himself. |
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> Trying to do it in-place will likely takes *days* and fill you with pain |
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> and mucho downtime. This list, the forum, and planet are full of horror |
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> stories of what it takes to do it and the issues you will run into. |
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> Frankly, you do not need to prove you can do it (we know you can), and |
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> you have much better things to do with your time (like proper billable |
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> hours). |
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> It's worth repeating: the customer caused this, he must now feel the |
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> pain and not you. |
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I should print this and learn this at last, right! |
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Thanks for the clear opinion .... at least I will be able to bill the |
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hours and I am quite sure that I am not that far from success .... it's |
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a rather simple samba-server ... right now I spent about 3 hrs of time |
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over the last week or so. |
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What's left? migration to openrc, new udev ... kernel is prepared ... |
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then the test of rebooting on their closed day (they don't work on |
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tuesdays). |
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