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On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 11:03 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote: |
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> This is not about finding solution to upgrade the system (in this case |
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> it was enough to force PYTHON_TARGETS=python3_8 for portage). This is |
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> about raising awareness that Gentoo is a rolling distribution and that |
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> we guarantee users to be able to upgrade their system when they do world |
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> upgrades just once a year (remember: in my case the last world upgrade |
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> is just 4 months old!). If they cannot upgrade their system without |
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> manual intervention, we failed to do our job. |
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Do we have this "guarantee" documented somewhere? I thought I've |
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heard six months tossed around. You say one year. It seems |
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reasonable to have some sort of guideline like this and try to stick |
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with it, at least for @system. |
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(I had a painful update on a container that was about six months old a |
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little while ago - I just did updates from git checkouts (which isn't |
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guaranteed to work due to distfiles issues). Obviously |
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troubleshooting a container where a rollback is a one-liner is a lot |
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easier, but progressive updates also tend to require a lot of |
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semi-redundant updates.) |
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Rich |