tracking -stable in the enterprise

Jo Rhett jrhett at netconsonance.com
Mon Jun 30 22:27:08 UTC 2008


On Jun 25, 2008, at 3:46 AM, Peter Wemm wrote:
> No.  Why on earth would we do that?  if we wanted to cause ourselves
> that much pain for no good reason, we'd go get a pencil and stab
> ourselves in the eye.
>
> We don't upgrade machines that have been deployed unless there is a
> good reason to.

This makes sense.  But for personal curiosity sake, what if Yahoo  
needed to stick with supported FreeBSD releases?  How would you deal  
with updating that many machines every 12 months?

Would that be possible in your business?

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Jo Rhett
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