Jeff - I agree with you. I only like to update my 3 systems a few times each year -- the regression testing is *way* too much work.
Ever try "revdep-build" just to see how much trouble you are really in? -rdg On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 14:26, Jeff Smelser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:56 pm, Eric Paynter wrote: > > Nobody said they have to apply every change. You really only need to > > apply the security patches. As for the rest, read the changelog and > > see if there is any benefit to updating - often there isn't. I've > > seen a lot of packages go from, for example, version-x-r3 to > > version-x-r4 and the only change in the changelog is "marked stable > > on platform y", when it's not even installed on platform y. So it's > > just a recompile for nothing. > > Your right, you don't.. But lets says package A comes out with a security fix. > After this box has been up for year, most of this stuff the server has, is > probably gone. Hell, 6 months is a long time in gentoo world. He tries to > update and it says he has to upgrade 50 others because gentoo has grown since > then.. Why should he have to upgrade the 50 others?? Do a one shot or nodeps > you say? Then your taking a chance the ebuild/build process will fail due to > the fact the other packages are 'old'.. > > Its not as that far off, since it happened to people running gentoo. The > gentoo tree it highly depended on you keeping up with it.. > > - -- > It is easier to fix Unix than to live with NT. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/040Rld4MRA3gEwYRAoqYAJ9zd32UZqqbNegdpBhQxYBnBnHAiACghz8S > M3iVC0zN88wmL6zZQtuTs1Q= > =RAKt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- It is vital to remember that information is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight. - Arthur C Clarke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
