Bug 14357 – update severity for packages

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description squeeze 2003-01-22 03:44:48 UTC]

I wonder if it would be possible to have a "severity" system for packages.

Lets say I'm running a server. I'm not interrested to have 20 updates every day
when I do emerge -pu world. In fact I'm only interrested in security updates. So
typical severities would be like:

CRITICAL - Security and severe bug fixes
MAJOR    - The packages has major changes, like KDE 2.x to KDE 3.x
NORMAL   - Everything that shows up today when doing emerge -pu world
BETA     - Like the ~x86 keyword

This would be great coz on my desktop i maybe choose to run NORMAL or even BETA.
On my server I would propably run MAJOR, just to check for major updates on
packages.

The severity should only apply to already installed packages.

Would this be possible to do?
Too much administration when releasing an update?

Do you understand my idea? :)

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-01-22 10:01:56 UTC]

we are working on adding a security target so that you only have to update
packages that are security related ...

as for the other things, try using `emerge world -upl` so that you can decide
what is major and what is not (-l or --changelog will show you the changelog
entries)