On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Sriram Natarajan<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > In Linux environment - more specifically - Ubuntu or Fedora - allows me to > get latest version updates of some application packages - say Tomcat 6.0.20 > - without requiring me to update kernel. Is this some thing planned for > OpenSolaris 2009.06 or OpenSolaris.Next ? > > For example, if I am running a production server running on Tomcat 6.0.18 > and if I want to update to Tomcat 6.0.20 , the current way to do on > OpenSolaris would be > a) set the repository to dev > b) update to the latest build > c) reboot the server. > > On Linux, If I am not mistaken, I am able to get version updates without > having to do reboot to the new kernel and I don't have to be a paid customer > !.
Personally, I wouldn't even consider using the packages bundled with the OS to provide the foundation for production services beyond the most trivial cases. I maintain production software stacks independent of the OS, and that doesn't matter which OS I'm using (Linux isn't magically better here - in fact, the problem becomes worse the more software is supplied by the OS because it starts to get in the way and you run the danger of accidentally picking the wrong version from the OS). There's this notion in IPS of user images that might be applicable here - the ability to deploy a software stack into an independent image that is separate (at least in some sense) from the underlying OS. I'm not convinced it will necessarily help - actually using package management with such images doesn't seem to have much benefit, as you have to do your own software management/deployment/release engineering anyway. But it's an interesting idea worth keeping an eye on. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
