* 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: [email protected] mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
