Hi, One can see some similarity to a thread around week or two old (about critical packages). I would imagine, that a simple and straightforward solution would be to make a new set of packages. Since we already have world and system sets, it wouldn't hurt to have a third, "safe" list which would be configurable by user. What I mean is:
I consider ssh, postfix two very important packages (ssh is pretty stable, but hey, what if...) and I would most certainly not want to trigger emerge world and not notice postfix. So: I would add ssh and postfix to the "safe" set and do emerge -avu @safe, have a coffee and looked whether it's ok (mail are flowing, can login, etc. etc.) and then do emerge -avuD world and sleep well. I think this would be good solution for all of you? Regards Ladislav Laska S pozdravem Ladislav Laska --- xmpp/jabber: [email protected] On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick Lauer posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:53:39 +0200 as excerpted: > >> On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:29:00 Daniel Bradshaw wrote: >>> Some packages, like findutils, are pretty robust and generally just get >>> on with working. >>> Other packages, like apache and ssh, need are more fragile and need >>> plenty of configuration. >> That's almost completely user-side configuration outside the influence >> of portage. emerge findutils and emerge apache "works" the same ... >> >> >>> Packages from the second group want emerging on their own, or in small >>> groups, the better to keep an eye out for notices about things that >>> might break, to update configs, and to check that they're running >>> happily. >> That's a very individual thing :) >> Sometimes apache is a critical service, sometimes apache is just there >> as a fallback if/when the lighttpd+php+... stack breaks. > > FWIW, there's a portage helper package, IDR the name as I have my own > system for this but it looks like it might be helpful here, that allows > users to pick and choose their updates. One could run it multiple times, > updating (what the user considers) the critical stuff on its own, and > updating everything else in a big bunch. > > That seems like the answer here; it already exists; and it's in the tree > (unless it has been removed recently, I don't know as IDR the name). > Take a look thru app-portage and see what you find. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > >
