Quoth Garance A Drosihn on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 15:40:23 -0400 > >> The answer is: build host + jails for a testing environment... > >> This'll reduce your actual downtime. > >Did you just tell him to get another computer for each arch > >to have as a build machine??? > > > >Being a broke college student I don't think that's something > >I'd ever do to install updates on my boxes. I can't afford > >another computer just to build updates when every other OS > >I use does updates in another way.... > > If you are a college student with a few machines that > you work with, then you can afford some downtime.
Why? Just because I am from a mathematics department with no money for
hardware at all does not mean that our VLE does not have to run all the
time.
So, same question with three machines: home, office and off shore
server. How do I keep them all up to date without having to run the
patches three times?...
BTW, I consider pre-compiled packages to good (easy to install, etc...)
and bad (no fine tuning, etc...) while compile are good for exactly the
opposite reasons. Not sure which is best.
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