Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:33 Sat 28 Jan , Ryan Hill wrote: I've run into this three times today, so I'm a little grumpy. When you bump to a new ~arch version, please consider keeping at least one previous ~arch version around, so if people run into major issues they can at lease try the previously installed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-29 Thread Graham Murray
Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org writes: Agreed with a slight modification — once you've kept the old {stable,~arch} version around for a reasonable amount of time (say 30 days), you should be safe pulling it. As long as there are no open bugs on the later ~arch version breaking other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-29 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/30/12 6:17 AM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Agreed with a slight modification — once you've kept the old {stable,~arch} version around for a reasonable amount of time (say 30 days), you should be safe pulling it. Agreed with a slight modification ;-) Please make sure that at _any_ given

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: When you bump to a new ~arch version, please consider keeping at least one previous ~arch version around, so if people run into major issues they can at lease try the previously installed version to determine if it's your