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From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:30:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091021163001.GA16175@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <255f067f0910210821m68ef25b0q89bdbe2083c4425b@mail.gmail.com>

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Afaik, you can already do this.

Make a file in /etc/portage/sets/critical, or whatever you want to call
it, and in there list the packages you are concerned about.

Then you can do:

emerge -NDup @critical

to see the packages in that set that need to be upgraded or you can use
@critical in any other place you could use a set.

William

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 03:21:34PM +0000, Ladislav Laska wrote:
> Of course, by "safe" I meant "unsafe" or "needs-additional-care" or
> whatever,... My bad.
> 
> Regards Ladislav Laska
> S pozdravem Ladislav Laska
> ---
> xmpp/jabber: ladislav.laska@jabber.cz
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ladislav Laska
> <ladislav.laska@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One can see some similarity to a thread around week or two old (about
> > critical packages). I would imagine, that a simple and straightforward
> > solution would be to make a new set of packages. Since we already have
> > world and system sets, it wouldn't hurt to have a third, "safe" list
> > which would be configurable by user. What I mean is:
> >
> > I consider ssh, postfix two very important packages (ssh is pretty
> > stable, but hey, what if...) and I would most certainly not want to
> > trigger emerge world and not notice postfix. So: I would add ssh and
> > postfix to the "safe" set and do emerge -avu @safe, have a coffee and
> > looked whether it's ok (mail are flowing, can login, etc. etc.) and
> > then do emerge -avuD world and sleep well.
> >
> > I think this would be good solution for all of you?
> >
> >
> > Regards Ladislav Laska
> > S pozdravem Ladislav Laska
> > ---
> > xmpp/jabber: ladislav.laska@jabber.cz
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> >> Patrick Lauer posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:53:39 +0200 as excerpted:
> >>
> >>> On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:29:00 Daniel Bradshaw wrote:
> >>>> Some packages, like findutils, are pretty robust and generally just get
> >>>> on with working.
> >>>> Other packages, like apache and ssh, need are more fragile and need
> >>>> plenty of configuration.
> >>> That's almost completely user-side configuration outside the influence
> >>> of portage. emerge findutils and emerge apache "works" the same ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Packages from the second group want emerging on their own, or in small
> >>>> groups, the better to keep an eye out for notices about things that
> >>>> might break, to update configs, and to check that they're running
> >>>> happily.
> >>> That's a very individual thing :)
> >>> Sometimes apache is a critical service, sometimes apache is just there
> >>> as a fallback if/when the lighttpd+php+... stack breaks.
> >>
> >> FWIW, there's a portage helper package, IDR the name as I have my own
> >> system for this but it looks like it might be helpful here, that allows
> >> users to pick and choose their updates. ??One could run it multiple times,
> >> updating (what the user considers) the critical stuff on its own, and
> >> updating everything else in a big bunch.
> >>
> >> That seems like the answer here; it already exists; and it's in the tree
> >> (unless it has been removed recently, I don't know as IDR the name).
> >> Take a look thru app-portage and see what you find.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Duncan - List replies preferred. ?? No HTML msgs.
> >> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> >> and if you use the program, he is your master." ??Richard Stallman
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 

-- 
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-21 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1255733421-30950-mlmmj-4f4db363@lists.gentoo.org>
2009-10-16 23:29 ` [gentoo-dev] New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is? Daniel Bradshaw
2009-10-16 23:48   ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-10-17  0:50   ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2009-10-17  5:33   ` [gentoo-dev] " Rémi Cardona
2009-10-17  9:27     ` Tobias Klausmann
2009-10-17  9:47       ` Petteri Räty
2009-10-17  7:53   ` Patrick Lauer
2009-10-18  0:10     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2009-10-21 12:45       ` Ladislav Laska
2009-10-21 15:21         ` Ladislav Laska
2009-10-21 16:30           ` William Hubbs [this message]
2009-10-26 12:55             ` Ladislav Laska
2009-10-26 21:49               ` Duncan

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