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On May 24, 2012 5:19 AM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 23 May 2012 22:54:23 +0100 |
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> Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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[znip] |
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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 |
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> > me but unless you express your needs to maintainers, nothing is ever |
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> > going to happen. However, in this particular case, yes a news item |
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> > would be the ideal solution. |
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> I haven't opened a bug myself, mostly because I've never been bitten |
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> by this. My Gentoo servers run stable so I've always known from this |
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> list and other places when something requiring a reboot is coming down |
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> the line. |
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+1 |
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I love this list :-) |
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In my previous place, I have one 'experimental' server which gets updated |
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before all others. It's the 'designated fall guy'. |
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Which reminds me of Project Management 101: What's the first thing you must |
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do before embarking on a project? Answer: Designate a fall guy and prepare |
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implicating evidences. ;-) |
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> I agree, a news item is the perfect solution. Having portage do it will |
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> be highly cumbersome, it will require some kind of new magic flag in |
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> ebuilds that portage must parse. All that work for something that |
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> doesn't happen often? Nah, it'll never fly. |
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Also a heartfelt +1 for this. |
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That said, I'm going to repost this 'news' to the Gentoo-server list, |
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unless someone beats me to it. |
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Rgds, |
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