On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:49:29 +0100
Konstantinos Agouros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

<excellent procedure snipped>

Just a few comments.

1) If this were my company, I would not be in such a hurry to do
upgrades.  Except for security problems (do them right away), do the
emerge sync and emerge -p[uU]v frequently on your main machine, evaluate
the results, wait a week or two, check forums and this list, then
upgrade your primary machine, evaluate again, and then and only then
proceed to upgrade the others.

2) Automation, IMO, will eventually lead to disaster, if you expect
everything to work every time.  Play safe.  You really have nothing to
gain at the bleeding edge.  Don't be lulled into thinking that all
packages marked stable are stable in every environment.

3) I've seldom regretted being a few updates behind, but I certainly
remember the pain I experienced before I arrived at this approach.  And
I have only my single desktop system to think about.

HTH,

-- 
Collins - Denver Area - 
Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1

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