Re: [gentoo-dev] Frozen Bacula??

[Sevo Stille <sevo@radiox.de>]

Chris Lee wrote:

> As for 1.38.[01], I will have it committed
> to portage when I have some time in the near future, but please be aware
> that it will spend some time in ~arch just like every other pacakge.

Better start out with a hard masked package at least for some time! The 
implications of the (IMHO horrible) upstream failure of maintaining 
downward compatibility on a distributed application will inevitably hit 
somebody hard, if we do not prevent emerge -u world from switching one 
Bacula client or server to 1.38 without taking care of the others...

Probably the only thing we could do about it (as slotting is as 
impracticable as a network-wide forced upgrade) would be to install 
1.38.x to a temporary path, and provide a script to switch it alive 
manually, to be sure the admins in question have at any rate noticed 
that they may just be cutting their clients off from the backup system. 
If you are willing to go that way, I'd lend a hand.

Sevo
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