[OpenSIPS-Users] Upgrade version problems in a production system (mediaproxy)

Adrian Georgescu ag at ag-projects.com
Fri Jul 24 18:27:58 CEST 2009


On Jul 24, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Raúl Alexis Betancor Santana wrote:

> On Friday 24 July 2009 16:49:40 Adrian Georgescu wrote:
>> Carlo,
>>
>> We use only Debian development branch both for the development of our
>> software and for our deployments. If you use Debian unstable you are
>> the safest as we are testing and using our packages only this
>> environment.
>>
>> While the name 'stable' brings some confidence for the inexperienced,
>> in practice when it comes to bleeding edge developments like we do,
>> the stable version can become obsolete fast and you could be stuck by
>> running it because of the dependencies that do not make it to the
>> stable branch as soon as we develop our software. When things do not
>> work you will hear the same story "your distribution is too old" to
>> run this software.
>>
>> So the most stable distribution is unstable.
>
> That's too wilde Adrian !!! ... and abosolut wrong, I don't agree at  
> all.
> All the systems I run/install run Debian stable, and if I need some  
> blending
> edge soft I backport it to stable.

I am glad you can port it easily.

> Backporting mediaproxy it's a very simple task,  as it's a "very  
> simple"
> dependency software.

This simply means that the developers who did not aim to support your  
environment exceeded the expectations and did a very good job.

> -- 
> Raúl Alexis Betancor Santana
> Dimensión Virtual
>
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