On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:30:43 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > One of the things I do to minimize getting bit by newly released buggy > ebuilds is to wait a few days after a new update is available before > updating...
Isn't that what the stable tree is for? > This works well, and has saved me some serious pain more than once, but > it can be a pain to keep up with the updates sometimes... > > What would be really helpful would be if the emerge --pretend output > could show the date (and time?) that the new ebuild was made > available... You could write a script that runs emerge -ublah @world, parses the output and then checks the timestamps of the ebuilds. It could then filter packages based on the age of the ebuild, instead of showing a date and letting you do the work. -- Neil Bothwick All things being equal, fat people use more soap.
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