On 2012-05-23 5:54 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
On 05/23/2012 10:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Tanstaafl wants to know if a reboot*will* be required*before* he does
the update. What you are describing tells him that after the update
completes when it is already too late.
I face the same issue at work. We have a change policy requiring 14
days advance notice of any change affecting service. If I do a routine
world update then have to log an emergency change for an unexpected
reboot, the change manager will have my nuts for breakfast.
If it happens more than once, I'd be having a really unusual
conversation with the CTO which probably ends with him standing behind
me watching while I migrate every single box that isn't RHEL6 (all 200
of them) over to RHEL6 where I*do* have exact knowledge in advance of
the impact of a change.
Did either of you ever open a bug about this or even discuss it in the
gentoo-dev mailing list? What you say sounds like a valid concern to me
but unless you express your needs to maintainers, nothing is ever going
to happen. However, in this particular case, yes a news item would be
the ideal solution.
I didn't discuss it on the dev list (I'm not a dev), but I did ask a
question about this, but it was more general in nature (how to get
ewarn/einfo during --pretend):
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=5930125#5930125
As a result of that thread, I then opened this bug which was
subsequently closed:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281248
