CentOS and v5.6

[Dan Snyder]

Wow, I didn't mean to start a flame against fpTech.  Our server is 6 years
old and we were planning on upgrading its OS next year anyway.  I just
wanted to make sure we were not pursuing a path that had known problems or
issues.  

The answer seems to be that we are not, so thanks to everyone for the
helpful information!

Dan Snyder
IT Manager
Mercury Electronics
717-428-0222 ext.224


-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+dan=macdatatech.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+dan=macdatatech.com at lists.celestial.com] On
Behalf Of Fairlight
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:16 PM
To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: CentOS and v5.6

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:16:48PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's
blood, Joe Chasan cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> 
> but to be fairer to the sites you sold 5.6 to already, the change 
> should have happened with the move to 5.7, not mid 5.6 when customers 
> are now stuck with bugs and no easy fix in sight.  i don't recall the 
> exact date when
> 5.6.0 originally came out (2005/2006), but i'd wager 2.3.x was current 
> at the time.

Depends what you mean by current.  Lots of glibc 2.3 using dists were
mid-lifecycle, average cycle being 5yrs.

Bottom line is that if they won't or can't compile static binaries, with the
advent of VMWare, and now the -free- VirtualBox, there's no reason not to
keep a dist using each library revision handy for just this sort of thing.
Hell, other products release RPMs and/or DEBs by platform, and even
platform/version/bits.

I wholly agree about changing mid-version.  If they're doing that insane new
four point-level versioning, they really should make sure those are
sacrosanct.  It's one thing if they're not making a big deal out of their
versioning/pricing model.  Make it the issue they are, customers WILL take
issue over getting the shaft.

mark->
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