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
distr
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
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 thing
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 ver
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
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 /etc/p
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
> upg
