Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:00:22 +0100 Thierry Carrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | I'm probably missing something here. Please elaborate on how this GLEP > | meets the "Preemptive" design goal... > > Simple. emerge --sync displays the "you have 12 unread news items" > message after it's done. The only changes which can't be preempted here > are the kind which completely break rsync...
That won't save those following the example I gave: Thierry Carrez wrote: > - emerge --sync run as a daily cron job > - emerge -a mysql > - great, a new version is there. Typing "Yes" > - system gets borken > - emerge spits out message saying 14 files need updating and there is 1 > unread news item For them to know about it, they need to be warned when they do their "emerge -p world" or "emerge -a mysql" that the upgrade is not as easy as it seems. People using a cron job to sync are probably a significant part of our user base... -- Koon -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
