Am 07.01.2015 um 13:47 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server. >> The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh* > > > > Don't waste your time (you are already experiencing the full reason why). > > Backup data and configs, reinstall Gentoo, restore data and configs. > > Downtime? Of course. A few hours. Customer needs to understand he > brought this upon himself. > > > Trying to do it in-place will likely takes *days* and fill you with pain > and mucho downtime. This list, the forum, and planet are full of horror > stories of what it takes to do it and the issues you will run into. > Frankly, you do not need to prove you can do it (we know you can), and > you have much better things to do with your time (like proper billable > hours). > > It's worth repeating: the customer caused this, he must now feel the > pain and not you.
I should print this and learn this at last, right! Thanks for the clear opinion .... at least I will be able to bill the hours and I am quite sure that I am not that far from success .... it's a rather simple samba-server ... right now I spent about 3 hrs of time over the last week or so. What's left? migration to openrc, new udev ... kernel is prepared ... then the test of rebooting on their closed day (they don't work on tuesdays). S
