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On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:25:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> gentoo is run emerge, study output, understand all of it, consider what |
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> flameeyes has to say about it, wonder if some screw ball fucked up |
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> glibc yet again, discuss in upgrade meetings, then proceed with lots of |
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> other crap ad nauseam. |
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Part of the problem is that there is no such thing as a stable Gentoo |
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installation. the portage tree is changing all the time and emerge -u |
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world wants to continually install new stuff when the old stuff works |
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fine. It would need some sort of snapshot system where you can pin to a |
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particular point in the portage tree's history and only bug/security |
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updates would be applied. |
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> It's 130 different configs on 150 machines serving 30 different |
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> systems, many of them legacy systems. Management once asked what it |
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> will take to unlegacy all of that. They didn't like my answer: |
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> Triple the salary budget |
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> Two years. |
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If you really wanted it, you could quote lower and then slightly revise |
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upwards in light of "unforseen circumstances"... rinse and repeat. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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A man needs a mistress - just to break the monogamy |
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