Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Tom Wesley wrote:
> I think that there is a high degree of probability that
> portage-ng(-ng(-ng)) ;) will include some form of tree selection.  I
> personally would like to see something like this.  Either pointing to
> a completely different rsync server set, or having a extended set of
> architecture definitions.  I prefer the latter, as in x86-server,
> ~x86-server, x86-desktop, x86-testing and the like.  Security updates
> would of course need to penetrate all types here.  Maybe ~x86 and x86
> simply isn't enough of a split between what is stable and what isn't
> anymore, especially because enterprise server people are looking at
> Gentoo.
>
> Just my 2p...

I would like to see portage based upon a CVS repository in much the way
FreeBSD port collection is.  It would be nice to be able to go back to a
snapshot from 1 year ago if need be.  How this would be implmeneted with
portage in front of it, I am uncertain, but that would be a nice goal IMHO.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Hosiawa
> > > One of the biggest differences I can think of between a source-based
> > > distro (such as Gentoo) and a binary-package based one is that you rarely
> > > have library dependency issues.  If you compile a newer package against an
> > > older library, it will usually still work, and vice versa.  If a library
> > > is upgraded, you don't need to upgrade the packages that depend on it,
> > > just recompile if necessary.
> >
> > I did find one instance where this is not true. At one point when
> > upgrading qt on my system, emerging any kde app failed. I need to
> > recompile kdelibs to be able to compile a kde app
> 
> I guess that breaks down when you have a library that depends on another
> library.  I think that's what revdep-rebuild is for.  But upgrading qt
> didn't cause existing KDE apps to stop working, it just kept you from
> being able to compile KDE apps, correct?

Yes, all the kde apps worked fine. I didn't know about revdep-rebuild
back when it happened, but I guess it would have caught the problem

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Tom Hosiawa wrote:

> > One of the biggest differences I can think of between a source-based
> > distro (such as Gentoo) and a binary-package based one is that you rarely
> > have library dependency issues.  If you compile a newer package against an
> > older library, it will usually still work, and vice versa.  If a library
> > is upgraded, you don't need to upgrade the packages that depend on it,
> > just recompile if necessary.
>
> I did find one instance where this is not true. At one point when
> upgrading qt on my system, emerging any kde app failed. I need to
> recompile kdelibs to be able to compile a kde app

I guess that breaks down when you have a library that depends on another
library.  I think that's what revdep-rebuild is for.  But upgrading qt
didn't cause existing KDE apps to stop working, it just kept you from
being able to compile KDE apps, correct?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Hosiawa
> One of the biggest differences I can think of between a source-based
> distro (such as Gentoo) and a binary-package based one is that you rarely
> have library dependency issues.  If you compile a newer package against an
> older library, it will usually still work, and vice versa.  If a library
> is upgraded, you don't need to upgrade the packages that depend on it,
> just recompile if necessary.

I did find one instance where this is not true. At one point when
upgrading qt on my system, emerging any kde app failed. I need to
recompile kdelibs to be able to compile a kde app

I filed a bug report about it, but someone said portage doesn't support
automatically making kdelibs recompile after upgrading qt.

Would this be a possible feature of portage-ng, re-emerging an app when
needed?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Jeff Smelser wrote:

> This handles different versions and where each one is progressing, I just hope
> they start realizing they can't delete and ebuild just because they are 2-3
> versions past it or the like. I got caught on that with wget. I upgraded,
> later that week, I decided to do a emerge -e, and it broke because the wget
> version I had was gone..
>
> Never did figure out why they deleted the damn thing.

One thing I've noticed is that if you want rsync to delete "outdated" (no
longer on server) files, you must specifically pass it --delete options.
This is hard-coded into emerge right now, but could, of course, be easily
edited to never delete old ebuilds.  (Upgrades to portage will overwrite
this, of course.)

Presumably, the new portage will let this be an option, or create a list
of files to exclude from deletion consisting of all the currently
installed package, or something similar to that.  Admins can also easily
create ebuilds which only add a security patch, rather than getting an
entire new version.

One of the biggest differences I can think of between a source-based
distro (such as Gentoo) and a binary-package based one is that you rarely
have library dependency issues.  If you compile a newer package against an
older library, it will usually still work, and vice versa.  If a library
is upgraded, you don't need to upgrade the packages that depend on it,
just recompile if necessary.

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[Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.]

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Wesley
Since People seem to like the idea, is there any chance of developing
along this line of thought?


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On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 16:08, Tom Wesley wrote:

> I think that there is a high degree of probability that
> portage-ng(-ng(-ng)) ;) will include some form of tree selection.  I
> personally would like to see something like this.  Either pointing to a
> completely different rsync server set, or having a extended set of
> architecture definitions.  I prefer the latter, as in x86-server,
> ~x86-server, x86-desktop, x86-testing and the like.  Security updates
> would of course need to penetrate all types here.  Maybe ~x86 and x86
> simply isn't enough of a split between what is stable and what isn't
> anymore, especially because enterprise server people are looking at
> Gentoo.
> 
> Just my 2p...

Tom --

I think that this is a good approach.  It would surely work for me. 
Have you been following portage-ng-ng-ng?  Is this idea being consider? 
Have you sent this to the portage-dev list?  Would you

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread rd
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 16:08, Tom Wesley wrote:

> I think that there is a high degree of probability that
> portage-ng(-ng(-ng)) ;) will include some form of tree selection.  I
> personally would like to see something like this.  Either pointing to a
> completely different rsync server set, or having a extended set of
> architecture definitions.  I prefer the latter, as in x86-server,
> ~x86-server, x86-desktop, x86-testing and the like.  Security updates
> would of course need to penetrate all types here.  Maybe ~x86 and x86
> simply isn't enough of a split between what is stable and what isn't
> anymore, especially because enterprise server people are looking at
> Gentoo.
> 
> Just my 2p...

Tom --

I think that this is a good approach.  It would surely work for me. 
Have you been following portage-ng-ng-ng?  Is this idea being consider? 
Have you sent this to the portage-dev list?  Would you

-rdg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Jeff Smelser
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On Sunday 07 December 2003 04:08 pm, Tom Wesley wrote:
> I think that there is a high degree of probability that
> portage-ng(-ng(-ng)) ;) will include some form of tree selection.  I
> personally would like to see something like this.  Either pointing to a
> completely different rsync server set, or having a extended set of
> architecture definitions.  I prefer the latter, as in x86-server,
> ~x86-server, x86-desktop, x86-testing and the like.  Security updates
> would of course need to penetrate all types here.  Maybe ~x86 and x86
> simply isn't enough of a split between what is stable and what isn't
> anymore, especially because enterprise server people are looking at
> Gentoo.

This handles different versions and where each one is progressing, I just hope 
they start realizing they can't delete and ebuild just because they are 2-3 
versions past it or the like. I got caught on that with wget. I upgraded, 
later that week, I decided to do a emerge -e, and it broke because the wget 
version I had was gone..  

Never did figure out why they deleted the damn thing.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Jeff Smelser
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On Sunday 07 December 2003 03:56 pm, rd wrote:
> Jeff -
>
> I agree with you.  I only like to update my 3 systems a few times each
> year -- the regression testing is *way* too much work.
>
> Ever try "revdep-build" just to see how much trouble you are really in?

My systems are updated every Saturday.. I gives me two days to see how things 
are running... I don't actually have a production type system.. I just been 
around long enough to know how they do things. DBA's are normally very close 
to the people who run their boxes.. I know how they like to have our boxes.. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 20:26, Jeff Smelser wrote:
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> On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:56 pm, Eric Paynter wrote:
> > Nobody said they have to apply every change. You really only need to
> > apply the security patches. As for the rest, read the changelog and
> > see if there is any benefit to updating - often there isn't. I've
> > seen a lot of packages go from, for example, version-x-r3 to
> > version-x-r4 and the only change in the changelog is "marked stable
> > on platform y", when it's not even installed on platform y. So it's
> > just a recompile for nothing.
> 
> Your right, you don't.. But lets says package A comes out with a security fix. 
> After this box has been up for year, most of this stuff the server has, is 
> probably gone. Hell, 6 months is a long time in gentoo world. He tries to 
> update and it says he has to upgrade 50 others because gentoo has grown since 
> then.. Why should he have to upgrade the 50 others?? Do a one shot or nodeps 
> you say? Then your taking a chance the ebuild/build process will fail due to 
> the fact the other packages are 'old'..
> 
> Its not as that far off, since it happened to people running gentoo. The 
> gentoo tree it highly depended on you keeping up with it..
> 

I think that there is a high degree of probability that
portage-ng(-ng(-ng)) ;) will include some form of tree selection.  I
personally would like to see something like this.  Either pointing to a
completely different rsync server set, or having a extended set of
architecture definitions.  I prefer the latter, as in x86-server,
~x86-server, x86-desktop, x86-testing and the like.  Security updates
would of course need to penetrate all types here.  Maybe ~x86 and x86
simply isn't enough of a split between what is stable and what isn't
anymore, especially because enterprise server people are looking at
Gentoo.

Just my 2p...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread rd
Jeff -

I agree with you.  I only like to update my 3 systems a few times each
year -- the regression testing is *way* too much work.  

Ever try "revdep-build" just to see how much trouble you are really in?

-rdg


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> On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:56 pm, Eric Paynter wrote:
> > Nobody said they have to apply every change. You really only need to
> > apply the security patches. As for the rest, read the changelog and
> > see if there is any benefit to updating - often there isn't. I've
> > seen a lot of packages go from, for example, version-x-r3 to
> > version-x-r4 and the only change in the changelog is "marked stable
> > on platform y", when it's not even installed on platform y. So it's
> > just a recompile for nothing.
> 
> Your right, you don't.. But lets says package A comes out with a security fix. 
> After this box has been up for year, most of this stuff the server has, is 
> probably gone. Hell, 6 months is a long time in gentoo world. He tries to 
> update and it says he has to upgrade 50 others because gentoo has grown since 
> then.. Why should he have to upgrade the 50 others?? Do a one shot or nodeps 
> you say? Then your taking a chance the ebuild/build process will fail due to 
> the fact the other packages are 'old'..
> 
> Its not as that far off, since it happened to people running gentoo. The 
> gentoo tree it highly depended on you keeping up with it..
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Jeff Smelser
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On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:56 pm, Eric Paynter wrote:
> Nobody said they have to apply every change. You really only need to
> apply the security patches. As for the rest, read the changelog and
> see if there is any benefit to updating - often there isn't. I've
> seen a lot of packages go from, for example, version-x-r3 to
> version-x-r4 and the only change in the changelog is "marked stable
> on platform y", when it's not even installed on platform y. So it's
> just a recompile for nothing.

Your right, you don't.. But lets says package A comes out with a security fix. 
After this box has been up for year, most of this stuff the server has, is 
probably gone. Hell, 6 months is a long time in gentoo world. He tries to 
update and it says he has to upgrade 50 others because gentoo has grown since 
then.. Why should he have to upgrade the 50 others?? Do a one shot or nodeps 
you say? Then your taking a chance the ebuild/build process will fail due to 
the fact the other packages are 'old'..

Its not as that far off, since it happened to people running gentoo. The 
gentoo tree it highly depended on you keeping up with it..

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Eric Paynter
> It really erritates them when the devs delete a package because
> they are, so  called, 3-5 versions up. They only like upgrading
> every do often. Hell, most  of them have a hard time keeping up
> with windows security updates, how can  they handle a distro like
> this?

Nobody said they have to apply every change. You really only need to
apply the security patches. As for the rest, read the changelog and
see if there is any benefit to updating - often there isn't. I've
seen a lot of packages go from, for example, version-x-r3 to
version-x-r4 and the only change in the changelog is "marked stable
on platform y", when it's not even installed on platform y. So it's
just a recompile for nothing.

-Eric

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread rd
For me, the problem w/ gentoo as corp production is this --  
Everytime I update a package, I must run a full system/application
regression test -- to be certain that *everything* still works.  This is
a *major* undertaking -- at least 2 days of full time effort.

What I really need to be able to do, is apply security patches ONLY for
3 or 6 months -- then do the update world and regression testing.  For
this to work, it is important that all other package source is still
available in case I need to do a "revdep-build".

-rdg

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> On Sunday 07 December 2003 10:35 am, collins wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:07, Eric Paynter wrote:
> > > brett holcomb said:
> > > >>This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews
> > > >>article.  http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080
> > > >>
> > > >>"Gentoo Linux is currently a "bleeding-edge" type distro.
> >
> > Wrong!!!  It's only bleeding edge if you choose the non-stable branch.
> 
> Thats really depends on how you define bleeding edge.. Gentoo, in the corp 
> world, defines it as so since the packages are always changing.. Thats why 
> people have a hard time using it in the corp world when the packages are 
> always shifting around.
> 
> It really erritates them when the devs delete a package because they are, so 
> called, 3-5 versions up. They only like upgrading every do often. Hell, most 
> of them have a hard time keeping up with windows security updates, how can 
> they handle a distro like this?
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Jeff Smelser
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On Sunday 07 December 2003 10:35 am, collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:07, Eric Paynter wrote:
> > brett holcomb said:
> > >>This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews
> > >>article.  http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080
> > >>
> > >>"Gentoo Linux is currently a "bleeding-edge" type distro.
>
> Wrong!!!  It's only bleeding edge if you choose the non-stable branch.

Thats really depends on how you define bleeding edge.. Gentoo, in the corp 
world, defines it as so since the packages are always changing.. Thats why 
people have a hard time using it in the corp world when the packages are 
always shifting around.

It really erritates them when the devs delete a package because they are, so 
called, 3-5 versions up. They only like upgrading every do often. Hell, most 
of them have a hard time keeping up with windows security updates, how can 
they handle a distro like this?

Jeff
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread collins
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:07, Eric Paynter wrote:
> brett holcomb said:
> >>This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews
> >>article.  http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080
> >>
> >>"Gentoo Linux is currently a "bleeding-edge" type distro.

Wrong!!!  It's only bleeding edge if you choose the non-stable branch.


> I thought if you wanted "bleeding edge" you used ~ARCH in your
> make.conf. For those of us who like to *use* our machines rather
> than play with then, no "~" means you can expect things to be as
> stable as any other production-quality system. Is that not the case?

Exactly! I don't use ~x86 except for a very few things, and my machine
is and has been and will be rock solid.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-05 Thread brett holcomb
Hmm, I didn't say this - Mr. Simpson did.  However, yes, ~ 
means it's unstable for various reasons (ebuild not 
tested, app is unstable, etc.) so those of us who need to 
run use no ~arch.  The no ~arch is stable stuff and Gentoo 
seems to be pretty conservative in what they recommmend.

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:07:54 -0800 (PST)
 "Eric Paynter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
brett holcomb said:
This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews
article.  http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080
"Gentoo Linux is currently a "bleeding-edge" type distro.
It makes Gentoo Linux the ideal distribution for
hobbyists who get lots of cool toys before everyone else,
but makes Gentoo Linux a questionable choice for
production server environments,"
[...]
Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is
this for the current 1.4 release in a production server
environment?
Thanks,
Brett
I thought if you wanted "bleeding edge" you used ~ARCH in 
your
make.conf. For those of us who like to *use* our machines 
rather
than play with then, no "~" means you can expect things 
to be as
stable as any other production-quality system. Is that 
not the case?

-Eric

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-05 Thread Eric Paynter
brett holcomb said:
>>This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews
>>article.  http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080
>>
>>"Gentoo Linux is currently a "bleeding-edge" type distro.
>>It makes Gentoo Linux the ideal distribution for
>>hobbyists who get lots of cool toys before everyone else,
>>but makes Gentoo Linux a questionable choice for
>>production server environments,"
[...]
>Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is
>this for the current 1.4 release in a production server
>environment?
>
>Thanks,
>Brett

I thought if you wanted "bleeding edge" you used ~ARCH in your
make.conf. For those of us who like to *use* our machines rather
than play with then, no "~" means you can expect things to be as
stable as any other production-quality system. Is that not the case?

-Eric

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-05 Thread Christian Aust
brett holcomb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb am 05.12.2003 21:50 Uhr:

>> Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is
>> this for the current 1.4 release in a production server
>> environment?

I'm running Gentoo on production servers on the internet for more than 18
months now, and find it far superior to both Suse and Redhat distros. IMHO
most production environment is to keep track of important patches to both
system and server software. Gentoo is the appropriate tool for this.
Regards,

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[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-05 Thread brett holcomb
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:38:15 -0500
 "Brett Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This quote was made by Daniel Robbins in an OSNews 
article.  http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1080

"Gentoo Linux is currently a "bleeding-edge" type distro. 
It makes Gentoo Linux the ideal distribution for 
hobbyists who get lots of cool toys before everyone else, 
but makes Gentoo Linux a questionable choice for 
production server environments,"

"We're going to take pieces of the current 
"bleeding-edge" Gentoo Linux meta-distribution, refined 
them and use them as the basis for a robust, 
well-maintained version of Gentoo Linux -- geared 
exclusively for servers. For this project, we will reduce 
the number of ebuilds in our server branch from 1800 to 
around 400, at least initially. Our stable CVS tree will 
be completely separate from our current bleeding-edge 
version -- a "code firewall", if you will. Commit access 
will be limited to an elite team of Gentoo Linux 
developers. We will lock down upgrades so that "emerge 
--update world" will only fix known bugs and security 
fixes. Each release of this new server meta-distribution 
will have an official one-year lifespan, during which it 
will be painstakingly maintained by us. In-place upgrades 
to new releases will be fully-tested and very smooth. We 
will have some cross-pollination with our current tree, 
but anything that goes into the server distro will be 
carefully audited before being added. We are still 
developing the goals for our new server project, but 
based on feedback from the rest of our development team 
(who seem to be in near unanimous agreement) it looks 
like the project will progress very closely if not 
identically to how it is described above."

Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is 
this for the current 1.4 release in a production server 
environment?

Thanks,
Brett
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