From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13100 invoked by uid 1002); 8 Dec 2003 12:35:37 -0600 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 17604 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2003 12:35:36 -0600 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:25:11 -0800 From: david@futuretel.com To: Paul de Vrieze Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031208182511.GF32686@redhate.futuretel.com> References: <200312071145.55565.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1070822205.14950.761.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> <200312072011.10028.pauldv@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312072011.10028.pauldv@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers. X-Archives-Salt: 7d8aa994-43dc-4a46-b63f-ea8f18aec3ad X-Archives-Hash: 5f5e6946b2beee343f940efdcaf3b99c On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:11:02PM +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Sunday 07 December 2003 19:36, Lisa Seelye wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 05:45, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Valid enough concern. However if I was building a series of Gentoo > > servers that were to be as stable as could be I would go through the > > portage tree and prune non-server stuff (such as x11-*) and then create > > my own Portage tree to sync against. > I've done this internally at my company. Eventually I plan on deploying a product with it. Right now it is a Pain in the Ass(tm) to maintain and I do'nt have that kind of time currently. > That is still more work than if it is provided. It also doesn't offer > backported securtity fixes. But that is basically what such a release would > provide, however including the promiss that we will maintain it for a year. > This is exactly what needs to happen. I just haven't seen where any of this development is going on, so I have been unable to contribute. Is there even a gentoo project page for Gentoo Enterprise ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list