Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

[Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <ghostbar38@gmail.com>]

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Chris Bannister escribió:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:45:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>> I started with Debian shortly after Woody was released.  I remember
>> being disappointed with the repeated delays of Sarge.  However, I stuck
>> with it because I knew that when the release finally did come it would
>> be rock solid.  I currently have around a dozen servers in production
>> running Sarge doing things from serving LTSP, mail servers, web servers,
>> file servers, LDAP servers, etc.
> 
> [Probably a silly question, but its something that I've been thinking
> about]
> 
> Is there any problems running clients on Sid, but having your servers
> running stable? An example which springs to mind would be postgreSQL
> where the Sarge version is 7.x and Sid's client is
> postgresql-client-8.1.
> 
> I am guessing that you can't use the postgresql-client-8.1, i.e. psql,
> but would have to use ODBC or something similar.
> 
> Do you have to worry about which versions of software your users are
> installing to access your servers, or, do you control all of that.

No really, all new versions are able to communicate with older versions.
In fact in your server you need is what's more stable so must of servers
(with Debian) are Sarge or Stable and you can use them even if you're in
another thing different to Debian.

Jose Luis,
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