RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-security] Update to perl 5.8 disables most perl dependent programms

[Riyad Kalla]

I agree with paul. This is just good practice. It is also stated in the
digests as well about the perl situation, so its not like the
information wasn't available.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul de Vrieze [mailto:gentoo-user@××××××××.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:12 AM
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-security] Update to perl 5.8 disables
most perl dependent programms


On Sunday 12 January 2003 03:58, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would find it good if such major critical updates could be announced
some
> time before they are released. At my site this update has at least
disabled
> irssi and amavis.
> In the case of amavis all incoming e-mail is has been rejected.
>

At such a site do two things:
- Review all, I mean ALL, updates and be critical about what is being
updated.
  With essential systems one might even choose not to update unless
there is a
  specific reason to do so.
- Follow at least the gentoo-dev mailing list. Major updates come by
some time
  before they come out of testing. Most times indicating problems and
  solutions. That way difficult updates such as: perl libpng gcc-3.2
xft2 etc.
  can be identified. For me I wait with such updates for at least a
couple of
  weeks after they have been released. After that I will try them first
on one
  machine, before installing it on all.

Paul

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