On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's worth repeating: the customer caused this, he must now feel the > pain and not you. >
So, if he made an informed choice and that is what he chose, then that is how it has to be. However, if I were in the position of supporting this installation I'd probably give some thought as to what the right tools for the job are. Gentoo simply isn't designed to be updated twice a decade. If you REALLY want that kind of deployment you should probably be running something like RHEL, which will commercially support your old install for years and help you with any issues with migration (but there aren't likely to be many, since they will have tested moving from one 5-year-old release to the next 5-year-supported one. Debian stable or CentOS are of course free alternatives, or Ubuntu LTS. I love Gentoo, and I think it is the right tool for a lot of jobs, but it isn't always the right tool for EVERY job. If it really is just one box and you don't mind dealing with the downtime/hassle/etc twice a decade then by all means use Gentoo. However, if I were managing 100 of these this is not how I'd want to be doing it. -- Rich
