30 Jan
2021
30 Jan
'21
6:45 p.m.
Hi [bit]folks,
On 30/01/2021 14:38, Andy Smith wrote:
Do note that Ubuntu's standard support is only for
things from
"main". I don't have an Ubuntu server spun up right now but my
Ubuntu 18.04 desktop has 728 out of 2821 packages from universe,
thus relying on community updates for those:
$ aptitude search "?installed" | wc -l
2821
$ aptitude search "?section (universe) ?installed" | wc -l
728
Those of you with Ubuntu VMs, how many packages do you have from
universe? I do expect it to be a lot lower percentage than my
desktop, because they're servers.
I ran the latter command on my Ubuntu 18.04 VPS just now, and there
weren't many packages there. 48 to be precise.
However, some of the packages where what I'd consider critical. They
include:
* Let's Encrypt certbot
* Some dovecot components
* fail2ban (!)
* greylistd
* libssh2-1 (!)
* a number of php modules, including imagemagick, fpm and mbstring
* quite a few python 3 modules, probably for Lets Encrypt certbot
I suspect that the PHP modules are probably critical for some web
frameworks - in particular I think mbstring is needed to allow
unicode/international characters in some cases, and fpm is part of the
webserver config for many.
So I guess I'll be upgrading my VPS to 22.04 sometime next year, so that
I don't get hit by the end of standard support. I don't want to find
myself missing updates for things I know I'm using...
In that regard, the 5 year date seems not only reasonable, but wise. I
doubt many servers are using ONLY main, unless they're very simple.
Regards,
Phil