2012-07-19 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] 3.7.4-dev5 -> 3.7.5

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From: Johnny Solbu <so***u@solbu.net>
Message Hash: ff1229d80befd0241340db9ec0361ad80fc8eb4f4fc5fd5b59c2462d3b07a06f
Message ID: <201207200736.58804.solbu@solbu.net>
Reply To: <CAESLx0LCt=QOhtML+ZeT82CzrUP4ZrQmh7jRG-CT+n=bJczANA@mail.gmail.com>
UTC Datetime: 2012-07-19 22:36:54 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:36:54 +0100

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On Friday 20 July 2012 00:27, Timothy White wrote:
> Updates should be automatic unless you have disabled automatic updates.

Automatic updates on a server is dangerous!
Software _Will_ break  at some point due to automatic updates.

Besides, on prodution systems, all updates should be done manually, to avoid downtime that arises from updates.

One of the things that is currentl broken in Grase is openssl. Current grase packages requres openssl 1.0.0, whereas Debian Stable only iave v0.9.8o. Debian only add patches to software, it does not upgrade packages.
This means that systems running Debian stable most likely does not have even the previous grase stable, because of it's requirement on a newer openssl package that is available in Debian. We where forced to use Ubuntu because of this, when we prefer Debian on servers.

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