On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:28:56 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote: > Not sure about the paid support, but (IMO) the correct way to rollout an > > update to your servers is to get another machine with the same software > setup that you can test on. If you have a webpage or app that you need > to upgrade, then do it on your test machine, then roll out an update to > your gentoo machine. This is true for almost all types of systems. > Yes, buying another machine will cost you little bit, but the first > time it prevents downtime, it's practically paid for.
This also has the advantage of not having to load up your production servers with compilation. Use the --buildpkg option when installing on the test server and --usepkg on the production machine. Just make sure PKGDIR points to the same shared directory on all machines. -- Neil Bothwick There may be a correlation between humor and sex. Further research is clearly indicated.
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