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On Saturday 05 of November 2005 12:34 Lisa Seelye wrote: |
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> The first is the method of delivery: Through 'emerge sync', which |
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> requires that users run this on a regular basis to receive relevant |
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> news. Further, this process can take a very long time and transfers a |
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> relatively large amount of data along with the news. |
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> My second concern is the frequency that users sync. A stated concern is |
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> getting news to users before it is too late. Is there any way to gauge |
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> the number of unique users which sync on a regular basis? When is "too |
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> late"? Is there an acceptable window for delivering news? It is not |
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> uncommon for me to refrain from running emerge sync (or even cvs up on |
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> the entire gentoo-x86 tree) for weeks or months on machines I wish to |
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> keep somewhat static. |
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How can users who don't run `emerge --sync` or any other syncing methods |
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perform possibly dangerous upgrades of packages? |
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Cheers, |
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-jkt |
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cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth |
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