On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:23 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: > Neil Bothwick schrieb: >> >> On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:08:34 +0200, hw wrote: >> >>> infrequently update Gentoo because I´m *always* running into problems >>> like this. >> >> Every time, or is that just hyperbole? > > every time
Keep in mind that your reaction to problems with updates seems to be to avoid updates and run them less frequently. However, this is the sort of thing that is likely to make updates even more complicated to resolve. I tend to run most of my updates daily. Usually I run into no problems, but occasionally I do (let's say once a month as a guess). When I do run into a problem there are typically only a few packages to be updated, so it is fairly obvious where the problems are coming from. Usually somebody has already posted on a list or forum about the issue, or there is a bug. If I end up fixing it myself it is a lot easier to ID the issue when only a few packages are in scope. However, if I ran an update once a year then I'd end up getting a list of 500 packages to update, and probably about 12 different issues. I wouldn't know which of those 500 packages are causing those 12 issues, and I'd have to fix all 12 before the whole bolus is updated. I might also run into circular dep issues since packages would have been introduced to the tree, become dependencies, then been removed in the time since my last update. There are ways to do these kinds of updates but they're going to require a lot of effort on your part to make them possible. You'd probably want to set up your own repo to sync your production servers from, and serve binary packages to reduce the build-time dependency load. Plus, you probably don't want production machines building packages anyway. -- Rich
