On Wednesday 17 May 2017 08:25:38 am Rob Landry wrote: > Myself, I prefer > the second approach, not fixing what isn't broken.
Which I've been advocating for many, many years. Sometimes Rob and I disagree. Through his entire post, this is not one of 'em ! Some of you know that I wrote Spam-O-Matic to be an artificially intelligent self-training maintenance free anti-spam machine back in 2004. The prototype machine has been running since then, with two disk replacements and one motherboard replacement since then, total down-time about ten minutes on Slackware 9.1. Eventually, we are drug kicking and screaming into an update. Spam-O was recently "up"graded to a dual-core atom 64 bit processor in an ImageStream TS-1000 chassis largely just because. As a result I was forced to upgrade to a 2.6.27 kernel, because the 2.4.x kernel simply can't do SATA drives. It's still running the same Slackware 9.1 with only the kernel and modules updated to accommodate the hardware. Why ? If it isn't broken... I fully expect this arrangement to last the rest of my lifetime with no further updates. Spam-O does what it does very, very well. There will be no "features" added. No functionality expansion of any kind. There will be no need. Rivendell is a little different. Features are added. Functionality is expanded, to meet needs. Therefore some updates are necessary. Being a rather large beta site, we get them before you do. Sometimes, that is NOT a good thing ! ( well, it's a good thing FOR YOU ! ) And yes, there have been updates to CentOS that have rather badly broken some aspects of Rivendell on occasion. We strive that what is released to you, is exactly what it purports to be. Sometimes we do miss something. Known bug squashing is on the list, but that doesn't mean it'll happen today ! Just because Red Hat has updated the OS doesn't mean we're gonna rush right out and apply it today. In fact, we rather deliberately don't. Sometimes, things break. When it works for me, you'll get it. Meantime, if it were my revenue stream, I'd be doing as I do, as Rob is advocating. Test it thoroughly on a redundant machine, or leave well enough alone. ( preferably, both ) -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com "I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me." -- Dave Barry _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
