Re: Gentoo for production DB server?

From: Greg Donald <greg(dot)donald(at)nukote(dot)com>
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
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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.

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Greg Donald

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