Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:56:38 +0100 (CET) | From | Sven-Haegar Koch <> | Subject | Re: Development tree, PLEASE? |
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 00:22 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: >> It makes maintenance a real nightmare >> for atleast one environment in which I maintain production systems > > Why do you keep having to upgrade the kernel on production systems, if > the old kernel does what you need?
But it is missing all security updates.
What I am currently doing to workaround this problem:
- using Debian Sarge on my production servers as a base (good packages, but kernel is just too old) - Kernel 2.6.12 from Ubuntu Breezy (taken as source, not binary packages)
This way I have at least a working kernel (2.6.8 does not work on my newer boxes) and the security updates from Ubuntu, getting kernel updates with only little changes and low update-risks.
Mainstream kernel is just unusable when you don't have the time to verify the lots of changes in production environments.
c'ya sven
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