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Rich Freeman schrieb: |
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> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 10:08 AM, hw <hw@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> I infrequently update Gentoo because I´m *always* running into problems |
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>> like this. '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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> You're probably always running into problems like this because you |
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> infrequently update Gentoo. |
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Every three months is not infrequently. |
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> If you ran it every day you'd probably only run into issues every |
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> couple of months, and when you did you'd have it immediately narrowed |
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> down to a few packages since that is all that has changed. |
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Seriously, update every day? |
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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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> If you're looking for a distro designed to just work with no hands-on, |
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> then you should probably look elsewhere. |
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> Put it another way, why are you using Gentoo instead of Debian or |
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> CentOS in the first place? |
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Gentoo seems better suited when you want to use ZFS and doesn´t come with |
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as much bloat as Centos or Debian, and I don´t want systemd. |
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Besides, the installer Centos comes with failed to partition the disks, and I |
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didn´t have time and wasn´t inclined to mess with that. Both Centos and Debian |
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can leave you with rather ancient software, and Centos might not be updatable |
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at all. On top of that, Debian left users stranded with non-working systems |
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with their brokenarch and no fix in sight, at which time I replaced it after |
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over 15 years of using it, and it became deprecated. If it wasn´t for that, |
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I wouldn´t use Gentoo or consider Centos. |
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So after all, Gentoo seemed the least-bad choice with some arguments for it. |
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Now it turns out that you can´t update it without running into problems all |
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the time, and currently not at all. |
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> Gentoo is useful when you want to mess with the configuration of the |
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> distro itself, not when you just want to throw a few files in |
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> /var/www/htdocs and be done with it. |
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> Gentoo can be made to work rather well on servers, but you have to |
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> know what you're doing. You can't just run emerge -u world on a |
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> production server that hasn't been touched in a year and expect to |
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> work. However, you certainly could set up your own local repository, |
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> pull in updates as needed (certainly including frequent security |
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> updates), build binary packages and deploy to your test environment, |
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> make sure everything is good, and then deploy those binary packages to |
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> your production servers. You can accomplish a lot of things that way |
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> that you couldn't accomplish with CentOS or Debian. |
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> However, if all you want is the same binaries Debian already gives |
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> you, then just run Debian. It isn't like apache runs better just |
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> because you compiled it yourself. Gentoo is about tweaking things. |
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> And if you're going to tweak things in an enterprise environment then |
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> you need to be doing QA. |
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> If you really want to be deploying updates into production without any |
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> testing then you ought to stick with the likes of CentOS/RHEL. That's |
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> basically their entire value-add. Debian stable would be another |
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> option. |
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This is an entirely different issue: Does the new version of the software |
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work? It´s beside the point, which is: Is the distribuiton updateable? |
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Gentoo and Fedora don´t classify as updateable, and since Fedora doesn´t, |
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Centos doesn´t either (even only the latest version of Centos claims to be |
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probably updateable, previous versions weren´t at all). Debian used to be |
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updateable, yet the leaps were so big that you were better off running testing |
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all the time to avoid them until it became too messed up. |
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Unfortunately, that doesn´t really leave any good choices. And what is the |
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advantage of Gentoo supposed to be when you can´t even update it to be able to |
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do your testing to see if it works? |