Re: [Duplicity-talk] SSH backend and shell escaping

[Yves Goergen]

Am 09.12.2014 um 23:23 schrieb Kenneth Loafman:
> As a past consultant on Software Configuration Management, I can freely
> say, without a doubt, that the whole LTS process is a nightmare. What it
> amounts to is a separate development tree for each release operating in
> parallel with all the other releases.

You may be right from a developer's point of view. I know that 
perspective as well. But now I'm at the other end. Upgrading from 10.04 
to 14.04. I'm busy for a whole week now to update everything to work 
like before! And some critical services still don't work like before. If 
I imagine I had just done a dist-upgrade on the old machine, we'd have 
been completely out of business for 2 weeks. That just doesn't work.

I really did think that I might take the next LTS train in 2 years 
instead of 4 years, and do an in-place update. (You can't skip Ubuntu 
LTS versions when upgrading.) But after so much work I don't think this 
is a good solution. We might just keep this setup for another 4 years 
and then build up a new (and again more powerful - not that we'd need 
it) machine in parallel to switch over the moment it's working.

So while the developers want me to use their latest musings, I just 
can't rewrite my configurations every couple months only to keep it 
doing what it perfectly did before. (And test environments can't do 
everything the live system can, and they're always different.)

That's why I'm on LTS and I'm going to stay there. It gives me the 
safety that it won't change too much and still be secure.

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Yves Goergen
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