Re: [gentoo-dev] minor updates ... question/suggestion

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 21:34, Jean-Francois Patenaude wrote:
> Ok for the 'typos' kind of changes ... maybe I had exagerated my examples.
> But still, it would be nice to have some level of criticality related
> to updates.

There is already a group working on the ability to ONLY merge in
critical updates which have a GLSA released for them.

emerge sync
emerge glsa

You simply don't do a world update until your maintenance window.

> A highly important security bug fix would need to be updated in a
> matter of hours while a functionality enhancement could wait for a
> maintenance window a few weeks later.    I love the idea of being able
> to have constant up-to-date servers but I'd love to be able to update
> the important things quickly and do all the other updates at a later time.
>
> One could say "how can we judge if an update is important/critical" ...
> I'd answer that the one that is doing the ebuild surely has a good idea
> of the importance of the change.
>
> It's late here too, I'm not sure I'm pretty clear ... let me give a
> visual example :
>
>
> emerge --critical --pretend --update world
> [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/pam-0.77 [0.75-r11]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/pam-login-3.14 [3.11]
> [ebuild     U ] net-misc/openssh-3.7.1_p2-r2 [3.7.1_p2-r1]
>
>
> emerge --pretend --update world
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.2 [5.8.0]
> [ebuild     U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.2-r1 [5.8.0-r12]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.4 [5.3-r5]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/bison-1.875 [1.35]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r5 [3.2.3-r3]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/pam-0.77 [0.75-r11]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/pam-login-3.14 [3.11]
> [ebuild     U ] app-shells/bash-2.05b-r9 [2.05b-r7]
> [ebuild     U ] net-misc/openssh-3.7.1_p2-r2 [3.7.1_p2-r1]
>
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> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, André Ventura Lemos wrote:
>
> > Yhea, I kind of remember that, things just get quietly fixed in the cvs.
> >
> > seems ok to me
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 01:33, Michael Cummings wrote:
> > > Technically speaking (ok, so this is in policy somewhere at some point in
> > > time, it's late, I'm tired) if it's a typo fix, the ebuild isn't bumped -
> > > bumps (should) only occur when the change affects the code that is produced,
> > > or otherwise alters/enhances functionality.
> > >
> > > -mike, just a perl guy
> >
> >
> > --
> > I/O, I/O,
> > It's off to disk I go,
> > A bit or byte to read or write,
> > I/O, I/O, I/O...
> >
>
>
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