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> I've never heard of this happening in any Linux distribution. Can you be more specific? Not the OP but I run a personal server for mail etc., and I do rememb
by sorbits 12y ago
> I've never heard of this happening in any Linux distribution. Can you be more specific?
Not the OP but I run a personal server for mail etc., and I do remember one LTS → LTS upgrade of Ubuntu that removed the DKIM milter that my postfix config depended on.
So it happens.
> You might want to look into "DevOps". The idea is that you script your deployments together with automated tests for them
For a personal server the things that in my experience break are related to configuration files.
This can be subtle things, like some new option enabled by default that conflicts in some edge case, it can be upgrade scripts that butcher existing customized configuration files, or it can be a total restructure of how a package has structured its config.
All of this has happened to me, and I don’t think having scripts able to redeploy my server would have been of any help resolving these issues.
- rlpb 12y ago> ...and I do remember one LTS → LTS upgrade of Ubuntu... That's different. Supported features do change between distribution releases. But you don't ever need to do an emergency security update between releases. You have years to plan for a release upgrade. The grandparent was referring to unexpected emeregency breakages during updates within a release, which is an entirely separate thing.