Pasted from bugzilla. Please pardon the ugly newline formatting.
I'm a longtime (10 yrs) Linux admin and I've been using Gentoo for
perhaps 2
years and I'm super impressed with Gentoo, having gotten very annoyed
with the
rpm-based nightmare upgrade situation presented by most of the other
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:29 -0400, Kevin wrote:
One thing that I'm pretty sure is currently not possible with portage,
however, and that I'd definitely like to see as a part of this idea is a
way of setting thresholds on version numbers of packages in portage such
that the automated upgrade
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:29 -0400, Kevin wrote:
One thing that I'm pretty sure is currently not possible with portage,
however, and that I'd definitely like to see as a part of this idea is a
way of setting thresholds on version numbers of packages in portage such
that
On 4/26/06, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I really want is to make the process of maintaining Gentoo boxes
over the long term easier (IOW: less time-consuming) than is now true,
by adding some functionality that AFAICT does not now exist which would
allow me to automate some things,
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 14:24 -0400, Kevin wrote:
And unless I'm way off-base, the version-difference-threshold notion
described above is not implemented in portage now. Someone please
correct me if I'm wrong.
You're off-base.
See, you can, for example, mask all revisions within the same
Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
On 4/26/06, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I really want is to make the process of maintaining Gentoo boxes
over the long term easier (IOW: less time-consuming) than is now true,
by adding some functionality that AFAICT does not now exist which would
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Honestly, I don't see portage ever being able to really
support anything like this so long as the tree continues to change.
It simply doesn't seem to be compatible with how Gentoo development is
done.
and Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Yup. It's called
zing !
and with this post it's probably best to let this subthread die before we get
any more offtrack
-mike
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On 4/26/06, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to have the capability of being able to list some packages that
should
never be upgraded automatically (I realize I can do this to some degree
already
with portage), some others that are very unlikely to break from an automated
upgrade
