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Tl;dr: Automatic updates on my home server caused 8 hours of downtime of all of renn.es’ docker services including email and public websites

  • tarneo@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    I totally agree. But I just wouldn’t necessarily say gentoo is a bleeding edge distro: it’s kinda up to the user. They are free to configure the package manager (portage) however they want and can even do updates manually. I just like the idea of having newer packages at the cost of stability, because I also use the server as a shell account host (with an isolated user ;-)) and need things like the latest neovim. These days I would know if an update failed because I would literally be in front of the process and test services are working after the updates, so I’d know if I have to rollback. This makes it basically like a stable distro IMO (even though the packages aren’t battle tested before being pushed as updates).

    • skilltheamps@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know to what extent you got molested by the prophets of immutable distros yet, but I can only recommend to join the cult. Install Fedora IoT (or CoreOS) and simply know that you’ll get a working container host (powered by podman) with every update. The whole discussion about which distro might survive whatever massacre the respective package manager commits next becomes superflous: You simply get the next image that was built upstream solely to serve containers. The whole package-udpating-shengiangs is done by other people for you, you only collect the sweet result. The only “downside” is that one has to become familiar with containers, but since you run docker already that should work out. Also for stuff like tinkering with the latest tools, just put those in a distrobox. That way they are indipendent from your solid container host, and you can mess them up in whatevery way you fancy and dispose them without any traces left behind.

      Edit: To give one more example why this is awesome: It wouldn’t even matter which one you install, you can just rebase to the other (IoT lives in the fedora-iot remote. silverblue, coreos and the others in the fedora remote. Just for anybody who might be confused by only looking at ostree remote refs fedora)