Mick writes:
> On Friday 24 August 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > But then, there are things like the expat update. This happens
> > seldomly, but if it does, it's rather annoying. Maybe I have become
> > too comfortable with updating along the way, while working with the
> > system, but usually it works fine. But in the case of expat, I got a
> > message _after_ it was updated that I have to revdep-rebuild some
> > stuff (and I know I should read these messages, but at first I just
> > did not notice until the first problems hapened).
>
> I can't but agree with you. You have become too comfortable! :))
:-)
> I am happy that major system (well, desktop) downtime does not happen
> more often. I was running ~x86 for about a year, more than four years
> ago and breakages were a weekly if not a daily occurrence. Running
> stable these days is quite . . . stable(!) with incidents like this
> taking place less than once a year. On the other hand, I have a box
> that I don't want to take off line to do this update/upgrade beacuse it
> is slow and will take the best part of 3 days to complete. Will have
> to wait for the holiday weekend to get it done.
I also have two systems for wich I haves masked expat-2, as I only have
remote access to them at the moment. There should be no problem, but I am
not entirely sure, and prefer to be there when upgrading.
> I bet this is not something your average MS Windows user have to
> concern themselves with - but they are not running a meta-distribution,
> right? ;)
Right. But even with a meta-distribution downtimes are not really
necessary I think, so why not tune the updating process a little bit.
> > A soution might be to slot expat, and issue a
> > revdep-rebuild --library=/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0 afterwards. This
> > makes all the not-yet-broken apps use the new version, which could be
> > unmerged afterwards. In the meantime, all would be working fine.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Not sure that would add anything. You would still need to emerge and
> remerge a lorry load of packages at the end.
Sure. But I don't mind remerging stuff as long as I can still use my
system.
Alex
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