[ snips ] On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:48:38 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 August 2003 00:22, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > OK, maybe its just me and I am a control freak.. (hell, my wife says > > I can be.. :) ).. How can anyone just write a script to emerge world > > all the time and expect the system to just be ok?? Maybe its because > > of my systems being here so long. I have used gentoo since very > > early in the process as I followed Robbins around with his how to > > articles and was there when he decided to create this gentoo. > > I am one of the ones who does automatic updates, insane CFLAGS, runs > 2.6.0-test3-mm3, gcc 3.3 and ~x86. As I said previously in the e-mail > I'm sure prompted this one ;-), I've never had anything break so bad > that the system's been unuable. The way I see it, someone's got to > find the (almost always) small bugs that are missed by the developers > > The e-mail my script sends me tells me what packages were installed > and at what point and why it failed if there was a problem. The first > thing I do in the morning is check to see if any updates were made and > then run etc-update to check for any modifications that may need to be > > The perl thing is an example of something that didn't halted my > automatic updates. There was a couple of packages installed that > blocked the perl update, so I had to sort it out manually the next > day. > > To sum up, if you want absolutely no breakage then Dhruba, Collins and > Spider have the right ideas - especially Collins with his "wait two > weeks" policy. Nothing wrong with your approach, Jason, it's just a bit more venturesome that the average user would prefer. <grin> Absolutely no breakage is probably not a possibility, given the perpetual changes with a myriad of packages. Chicken I may be, but I've been sitting on the latest changes to baselayout for a month or more, since I was burned badly a long time ago. I might add that I clone my system to a ready and wating partition on a separate hard drive every couple of months. Once in a while, even my cautious approach leads to a bump in the road, so I like to have a fallback position. I like the scripts, and I may implement a -p only version when I have the time. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
