Neil Bothwick schrieb:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:08:34 +0200, hw wrote:
infrequently update Gentoo because I´m *always* running into problems
like this.
Every time, or is that just hyperbole?
every time
'Infrequently' means about every 3 months at home, and not
since, IIRC, 2015-02 here at work. The last update at home got stalled
because perl cannot be updated, and I haven´t had the time to look into
that to finish it.
Problems like this are usually resolved quickly. Syncing and updating a
couple of days later would probably have sorted it.
That´s what I was hoping, but the problem remained. I can´t try it now
because I don´t have internet at home atm.
The other reason is that it takes time to update the kernel when a new
one comes along, so updating like every week is not feasible. And I
don´t want to reboot all the time.
You don't need to boot into every new kernel that hits portage. As long
as your current kernel has no security issues you can stick with it.
Plenty of people use Gentoo with only the LTS kernels.
Probably, yes, but who knows if everything works fine with an older kernel?
New versions of some software might require a sufficiently recent kernel.
Besides, I don´t want to update too frequently because there may issues
with new versions of software.
If you use the stable arch, you don't get brand new versions. Packages
are normally a month old before they hit stable.
That doesn´t mean that things might stop working, and besides replacing the
software itself, there might be some updating procedure that needs to be
followed.
If you say that you need to update more frequently than every 3 months
for not to have problems with the update process itself, I can only
conclude that Gentoo is entirely unsuited for servers --- and for home
use as well other than for test machines perhaps.
It may be more a case of Gentoo being unsuited for you, your
expectations and your preferred way of working. In fact, any rolling
release distros sounds like it won't be right for you.
Who can afford to run into problems every time they update when they need
to keep things working? Problems with the very update process itself is
something you shouldn´t have to expect at all.
