| From: | Greg Donald <greg(dot)donald(at)nukote(dot)com> |
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| To: | Matthew Marlowe <matt(at)deploylinux(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Gentoo for production DB server? |
| Date: | 2004-08-25 15:01:22 |
| Message-ID: | 1093446082.5786.12.camel@localhost |
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On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 08:46, Matthew Marlowe wrote:
> Gentoo has alot of features, is amazingly customizeable, and can significantly
> reduce long term systems maintenance costs -- but it isn't a silver bullet. You have
> to take over some QA tasks that redhat/etc would otherwise be doing.
>
> We currently have about 100 gentoo servers here, and wouldn't think about switching
> to any other distro. But just because the gentoo developers release a new ebuild, doesn't
> mean that we deploy it w/o testing.
That's exactly my point. They provide a way for you to add unstable
packages using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86". I never used the command because
I never _wanted_ unstable packages. Seems I got them anyway.
--
Greg Donald
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