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On 2012-05-23 5:54 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 05/23/2012 10:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> Tanstaafl wants to know if a reboot*will* be required*before* he does |
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>> the update. What you are describing tells him that after the update |
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>> completes when it is already too late. |
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>> I face the same issue at work. We have a change policy requiring 14 |
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>> days advance notice of any change affecting service. If I do a routine |
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>> world update then have to log an emergency change for an unexpected |
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>> reboot, the change manager will have my nuts for breakfast. |
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>> If it happens more than once, I'd be having a really unusual |
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>> conversation with the CTO which probably ends with him standing behind |
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>> me watching while I migrate every single box that isn't RHEL6 (all 200 |
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>> of them) over to RHEL6 where I*do* have exact knowledge in advance of |
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>> the impact of a change. |
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> Did either of you ever open a bug about this or even discuss it in the |
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> gentoo-dev mailing list? What you say sounds like a valid concern to me |
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> but unless you express your needs to maintainers, nothing is ever going |
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> to happen. However, in this particular case, yes a news item would be |
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> the ideal solution. |
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I didn't discuss it on the dev list (I'm not a dev), but I did ask a |
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question about this, but it was more general in nature (how to get |
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ewarn/einfo during --pretend): |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=5930125#5930125 |
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As a result of that thread, I then opened this bug which was |
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subsequently closed: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281248 |
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