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 -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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