Thanks for making it super easy to switch back and forth! My tool misses php5-mcrypt on trusty.
Dan Michael On 29 April 2015 at 22:19, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote: > Reminder: This is going to happen right now. > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello! Starting April 29 2015, any new lighttpd webservices started will >> default to Ubuntu trusty instead of ubuntu precise as is the case now. Note >> that none of the current webservices will be migrated by us - if you are >> running on precise now, it will continue running there until you migrate it >> yourself. Just new invocations of 'webservice start' or 'webservice restart' >> (without explicitly setting the --release parameter) is what will be >> changed. == What are the marjor differences? == 1. PHP 5.5 instead of PHP >> 5.3. This gives you access to a lot more features and better performance. If >> your code depends on bugs in PHP 5.3 to work properly, it might break when >> migrated. 2. Newer versions of packages in general. Newer is better, right? >> :) 3. Less breakages due to NFS. Trusty is in general better at being a nice >> NFS client than precise is, and needs a lot fewer restarts in general :) == >> Does this mean I am now forced to use trusty even if I don't want to? == >> Nope. If you want to keep using precise for new webservices / restarts, you >> can just use webservice --release precise <start|restart> instead. We do >> suggest you migrate, however - we're hoping to remove as many precise >> instances as possible over time, so this would be a good time to migrate. We >> offer plenty of support :) == So I want to migrate! How do I test? == Quite >> simple! Use: webservice --release trusty restart This will move your >> webservice to trusty (and newer version of PHP / whatnot). And if everything >> is ok, you can leave it as is :) If not you can move it back with: >> webservice --release precise restart And it'll be back on precise :) >> == Will you help me move my tool over to trusty? == >> >> Sure! Just ask :) >> == I'm running a uwsgi-python / tomcat / nodejs tool. Should I care? == >> Nope. Those are already running trusty == I'm running my bot on precise, not >> webservice. Will this affect me in any way? == Nope, although I would >> encourage you to migrate too :) > > > > -- > Yuvi Panda T > http://yuvi.in/blog > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-announce mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-announce > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
