On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thad, > > On 7/15/2011 9:59 PM, Thad Humphries wrote: > > If you rely on RedHat, Novell, OpenSuSE, Unbuntu, etc. you can wait > > for some things until you are old and gray. > > Sing it. We're stuck on MySQL 5.0 in production because of this very > fact. Sometimes I pine for the days of Gentoo. Only sometimes. > > > Worse is to have some update that you haven't screened stomp on > > something you need. > Right, but when I roll my own, I can more easily keep multiple versions of a program--Apache, Tomcat, Java, Firebird RDBMS, etc. and switch between them if need be. (Life, however, has become easier since someone else here took over the database stuff. Now I just run whatever version of Firebird OpenSuSE is installing, and let production worry the final version.) > Most package managers have provisions for holding a package (or the > whole repo) at a certain level. > > Actually, the really nice thing about Debian, for instance, is that > their releases are all stable (assuming you don't follow Sid like an > idiot): you should never get stomped with anything. The bad news is that > you have to wait for a major upgrade in order to get that next version > of whatever - like MySQL 5.1 :( > > - -chris > -- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v, 121-24)
