* Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> schrieb:

> Hmmm, odd.  I experience amd64 (stable) as being pretty stable on my
> servers.  Last breakage which really got me upset was php, but that's
> already some time ago.

the ini file issue ?

> With Gentoo you should update on fairly regular intervals, and have the
> time inbetween as short as possible, but 2 or 3 weeks appears to be
> fine.  I myself have a cronjob that syncs every night, and mails me the
> output of emerge -Dupv world.  When this list gets too large, it's
> typically about time to do some updating.

I've automatized even a bit more: my cron script also automatically
rebuilds the packages I have explicitly whitelisted in my
/etc/portage/package.autoupdate file.

Let me know if anyone likes to have it.

> I have masked new major releases of PostgreSQL and MySQL for instance,
> and of course Python 3. 

/me too.

Perhaps we can find a way to make the update safe (so eg. new
postmaster is installed along the old one) and provide some
migration tool ?


cu
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