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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: |
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>> Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to |
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>> bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly |
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>> regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want |
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>> to do this. I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho. |
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> Michael's been around a while, his name is familiar. He did say he wants -rN |
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> updates so I take that to mean he wants bug fixes and security updates but |
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> everything else to stay that same and especially no potential ABI/API changes |
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> Not an unreasonable thing actually - it's what you get with RedHat or any |
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> decent enterprise distro |
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>> I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting |
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>> to keep it that way. I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the |
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>> long run. |
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> I can only imagine what will happen if he forgets that package.mask and then |
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> removes it six months later:-) |
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Since he has been around a while and knows what he wants, then I guess |
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he knows the possible pitfalls too. I just wanted to mention it in case |
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he doesn't know that not updating can lead to issues later on. Didn't I |
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post on a thread recently about a system not being updated in a long |
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while and a reinstall was better than updating? It's one of those |
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things that worries me. |
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I must confess that I do the same with my kernel. When I get one that |
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works, I just don't want to update. I download them and build a new one |
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but just don't boot them. Of course this is another reason why too: |
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root@smoker / # uptime |
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03:23:09 up 60 days, 11:10, 3 users, load average: 1.16, 1.33, 1.37 |
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root@smoker / # |
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I go for a while without rebooting and forget the new kernel is there. |
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Yea, if something happens to the package.mask file, he's in for a |
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surprise for sure. |
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OP, you may also want to make package.mask a directory and then you can |
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sort out your files easier too. Just something to think about. I think |
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that is a new feature. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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