On Friday 05 December 2003 20:51, Lisa Seelye wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:38, Brett Simpson wrote:
> > Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is this for the
> > current 1.4 release in a production server environment?
>
> Gentoo is flexible enough to be placed in just about any type of
> environment.  As we move closer and closer to Portage-ng the
> administrator of a production server will only gain more control over
> the Gentoo machines he or she maintains.

In general when you have to maintain such a system you want to keep it as it 
is. To avoid it breaking, or users being annoyed with changed interfaces. 
This means that you install once, and after that want to change as little as 
possible. With the current portage this is not easy because ebuilds disapear 
after they have been succeeded by newer ones. "Enterprise Gentoo" basically 
is a specially audited tarbal of ebuilds which have been taken from the main 
tree, and for which there is a team that says. We will provide security 
backports for this and fixes for those really annoying bugs, but mainly will 
allow you to run the same system for a year without anything changeing away 
from under your feet.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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