begin quote On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:48:38 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Actually Spider broke his test box recently and did it > all by himself - but that was a hard drive failure! If you can accept > a small amount of breakage and have the time and intellect to find the > solutions, then automatic updating is not such a bad thing. Yep, i'd personally advice against doing nightly updates without overseeing things. (I never do emerge -u world even, ever. i do each pack or in groups. ) What could be doable on a nightly basis (but I don't do it for other reasons) emerge sync emerge -fu world since that might reduce waitingtimes a bit in the system when you update. also, for stability.. I'd adivce -against- leaving a system untouched for too long. When you get a big queue of updates theres a situation that hasn't been tested properly. (anyone want to donate 40 or 50 machines that we can put someplace and try 3 months delayed deployment on? That would be necessary... and even then it wouldn't be proper since we can't have all the software running then.) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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