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Patrick Lauer posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:53:39 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:29:00 Daniel Bradshaw wrote: |
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>> Some packages, like findutils, are pretty robust and generally just get |
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>> on with working. |
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>> Other packages, like apache and ssh, need are more fragile and need |
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>> plenty of configuration. |
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> That's almost completely user-side configuration outside the influence |
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> of portage. emerge findutils and emerge apache "works" the same ... |
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>> Packages from the second group want emerging on their own, or in small |
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>> groups, the better to keep an eye out for notices about things that |
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>> might break, to update configs, and to check that they're running |
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>> happily. |
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> That's a very individual thing :) |
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> Sometimes apache is a critical service, sometimes apache is just there |
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> as a fallback if/when the lighttpd+php+... stack breaks. |
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FWIW, there's a portage helper package, IDR the name as I have my own |
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system for this but it looks like it might be helpful here, that allows |
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users to pick and choose their updates. One could run it multiple times, |
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updating (what the user considers) the critical stuff on its own, and |
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updating everything else in a big bunch. |
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That seems like the answer here; it already exists; and it's in the tree |
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(unless it has been removed recently, I don't know as IDR the name). |
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Take a look thru app-portage and see what you find. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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