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On 07/01/2015 14:56, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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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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:-) |
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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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The tricky one is going to be that persistent interface names from udev |
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18 months or so back. When you get to that, you'll probably want to |
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re-read the huge threads from that time, as you only get one chance to |
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get it right. |
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I see in your reply to Neil you have glibc conflicts. I don't know what |
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will happen if you do it with --nodeps, but I wouldn't try that. The box |
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is remote, if something goes wrong... Rather go with Tomas' suggestion |
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of yearly portage snapshots and update in stages. |
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openrc should be seamless. I forget the exact timelines, but IIRC you |
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will also hit baselayout-2 migration. That one was very smooth and well |
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documented so you shouldn't have much trouble. |
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Any python issues? I don't recall any show-stoppers with it, but you |
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never know. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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