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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: PR team <pr@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 15:51:06
Message-Id: 01fabedca3374352a55f3b74c615edd8e4f4d3ff.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item by Mike Gilbert
1 El jue, 25-11-2021 a las 09:20 -0500, Mike Gilbert escribió
2 [...]
3 > I don't like the phrase "forcefully downgraded" here. This implies
4 > > > that something happened without the user's consent. emerge would have
5 > > > informed them of the downgrade before it happened. I would suggest
6 > > > removing the word "forcefully" from these paragraphs.
7 > >
8 > > If you do a normal world upgrade, this is the default portage behavior,
9 > > not? I.e. package manager will downgrade if you don't stop. And
10 > > especially on servers, people tend to use cronjobs/scripts to do that...
11 >
12 > Something happening by default is not the same as forcing it to happen.
13 >
14 > Using a cron job or other blind automation to do package upgrades on
15 > any production system is a bad idea. We certainly do not recommend
16 > that to people, nor force them to do it.
17 >
18 >
19
20 As a side note, maybe ebuild should add sanity checks (like those from glibc) to
21 prevent downgrades, otherwise people could still accidentally hit the issue
22
23 Thanks

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