Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-29 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/30/12 6:17 AM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Agreed with a slight modification — once you've kept the old > {stable,~arch} version around for a reasonable amount of time (say 30 > days), you should be safe pulling it. Agreed with a slight modification ;-) Please make sure that at _any_ given mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-29 Thread Graham Murray
Donnie Berkholz writes: > Agreed with a slight modification — once you've kept the old > {stable,~arch} version around for a reasonable amount of time (say 30 > days), you should be safe pulling it. As long as there are no open bugs on the later ~arch version breaking other packages.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:33 Sat 28 Jan , Ryan Hill wrote: > I've run into this three times today, so I'm a little grumpy. When you bump > to a new ~arch version, please consider keeping at least one previous ~arch > version around, so if people run into major issues they can at lease try the > previously install

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > When you bump > to a new ~arch version, please consider keeping at least one previous ~arch > version around, so if people run into major issues they can at lease try the > previously installed version to determine if it's your package at fault.

[gentoo-dev] Keeping older versions around

2012-01-28 Thread Ryan Hill
I've run into this three times today, so I'm a little grumpy. When you bump to a new ~arch version, please consider keeping at least one previous ~arch version around, so if people run into major issues they can at lease try the previously installed version to determine if it's your package at fau