On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
Thanks a lot for your comprehensive, prompt and very helpful reply. I am very impressed.
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So, if you really need upgrade-cylces of many years you have to avoid cross-platform situations and non-commercial open source solutions like OpenPKG. Instead you have to stick with commercial vendors like Sun, RedHat, SuSE, etc and pay for their enterprise products. Then you are forced to upgrade just every 2 years ;-)
Agree :-) In fact, although you argue with limited resources for supporting "only" the latest releases of many distributions, IMHO it might be a good design decision, too. Fast update cycles force you to really automate stuff, write tests and streamline the deployment process as good as possible. If I have to reinstall my packages every few months, it is really worth doing the stuff that should be done anyway ;-)
Thanks again, Thomas
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