Kyle Cordes wrote:
> At the risk of being too far offtopic here on the Puppet list: I
> wonder if there are, or will be, any wide-use distributions that work
> differently, that update incrementally rather than a whole "release"
> at a time. I imagine a world where I installed once and never upgraded
> a distro release, but rather got new versions of everything a bit at
> time. This could easily create more trouble than it solves,
> obviously.
Gentoo Linux works that way. Works pretty well, actually. The biggest
disadvantage is that you can't easily trigger on OS version if you for
example need different config files for different versions of a package.
"Normal" Linux distros tries to avoid upgrading packages within a major
version in way that requires users to change their config files; not so
with Gentoo. You would probably have to add some custom facts to get the
version of the specific packages if you want to do such selections from
within Puppet.
(There are some limitations in the implementation of Gentoo's package
system, Portage, that sometimes makes the incremental upgrades somewhat
painful, but they are limitations with the implementation, not with the
concept.)
/Bellman
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