On 01/01/2012 07:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:07:45 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Usually it's because a world update wants to do both trivial version
bumps and replace major software at the same time. I can't take a
server down for an hour in the middle of the day to update Apache, but
I can bump timezone-data, sure.
Why would you need to take it down? All you need to do is restart Apache
after the update.
I have to test, like, 200 websites to make sure they still work.
Something /always/ breaks.
Apache was just an example. PHP is the same way: functions get removed,
renamed, or just subtly changed. I can't replace Dovecot with users
logged in. I can't upgrade/restart postgresql while clients are hitting
it. If I'm working remotely, I don't want to update openvpn, iptables,
or even openssh. There's a long list of packages that I just ain't gonna
mess with during the day.
