I'm definitely no expert in server admin. I guess I'm lucky in the sense 
that the platform admins are willing to support whatever package I may 
require. 

Re Gentoo portage breakage, I've heard from the admins, IRC seems to be the 
channel for most if not all Gentoo news :) LOL

And I think the thread raises an interesting question, what "role" should a 
modern developer play these days ... I may start a new thread on that!

On Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:36:24 UTC+10, Gregory McIntyre wrote:
>
> +1 to that. I found that using Gentoo for my servers put the bleeding 
> in bleeding edge. Maybe if you're more pro than I am it is okay? I 
> like Ubuntu Server LTS now. 
>
> -Greg 
>
>
> On 24 July 2012 10:29, Andrew Stone <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > 
> > As an aside, I consistently found Gentoo's portage tree far too unstable 
> > even for development use (2006-09)... unfortunately the maintainers of 
> > portage were more than happy to break your system; without even using 
> the 
> > news feature of portage to warn of impending doom. 
> > 
> > I switched to Arch in 2009 for a short while then on to Debian (testing) 
> and 
> > have never looked back since. 
> > 
> > Regards, 
> > Stonie. 
> > 
> > 
> > On 24 July 2012 09:54, marsbomber <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Thanks guys! 
> >> 
> >> I'm suspecting the issue might be caused by libxml ... I remember the 
> >> platform engineer was messing around with the emerge on Gentoo when 
> >> installing Nokogiri dependencies. 
> >> 
> >> I'll dig deeper when I can get more time allocated from the platform 
> >> engineer :) 
> >> 
> >> On Friday, 20 July 2012 20:47:35 UTC+10, Gregory McIntyre wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> That you can run it individually and it passes suggests that there is 
> a 
> >>> test interdependency. Any before(:all) calls in your tests? Any tests 
> that 
> >>> write to disk? Can you run the entire suite manually in whatever 
> manner you 
> >>> ran the single test manually? It would help confirm that theory. If it 
> can 
> >>> be reproduced in this manner, things like show_page or a debugger 
> might 
> >>> help. 
> >>> 
> >>> I agree with Dave - in my experience, the situation you're in has 
> always 
> >>> come down to some problem or fragility in either my code or my 
> tests... 
> >>> except that time recently when Firefox kept popping up a survey... lol 
> >>> 
> >>> -Greg 
> >>> 
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