Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree

[Lisa Seelye]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 13:31, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > Maybe one year is still too short? I'd propose a much longer period (3
> > years), I understand that this is a lot of work for the infrastructure,
> > but even at 3 years, its max 12 ebuilds per package...
>
> I don't object to making it longer, although I think 3 years is sort of
> extreme.

What I think would be beneficial is to have a variable inside the
make.conf  (and make.globals) to the effect of:

QUARTERLY_UPDATE_FREQUENCY='12'  # update once every 3 years
QUARTERLY_UPDATE_FREQUENCY='-1'  # never update
QUARTERLY_UPDATE_FREQUENCY='0'  # update whenever there is a new update
(current behavior)

This would necessitate a file to tell Portage when the last quarterly
update was applied.

You may ask "Why even have these variables?"  With security updates it
may be beneficial to have `emerge -u world' imply the following logic:

Basically: 
if (quarters elapsed since last full update > quarter limit) then
 apply all updates
else if (security updates are available) then
 apply all security updated updates
else
 do nothing
fi

(I can draw a diagram if necessary...)


-- 
Regards,
-Lisa
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