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Bug 140682 - Introduce flag to mark packages that need manual intervention
Summary: Introduce flag to mark packages that need manual intervention
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 86209
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2006-07-16 12:11 UTC by Henryk Plötz
Modified: 2006-07-16 12:16 UTC (History)
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Description Henryk Plötz 2006-07-16 12:11:41 UTC
Moin,

I recently let it do some updates (emerge -u gnome in this case) only to discover, when I came backe, that it aborted at package 17 of 106 because some package (openldap in this case) couldn't manage to update on its own. I appreciate that it might be hard to write something that even remotely resembles a database and doesn't get totally devastated at the sight of a potential update, but packages like these completely spoil the fun, by making it impossible to bulk-update a system while doing something completely different (e.g.: sleeping).

I therefore suggest that a new flag be introduced, similarly to the already existing fetch-restriction which marks packages that need their sources downloaded manually, to mark theses 'whiny'[1] packages that can't get an update done without a human holding their hand. Clear candidates for this flag would be net-nds/openldap and dev-db/mysql and any other package that has the moral equivalent of if [[ -d "${ROOT}/${DATADIR}" ]] ; then die "Database already exists" ; done.

These packages should then be marked clearly in the emerge -au output, so that I can manually update them, before going to sleep and letting it bulk-update the rest of the packages.

[1] This is a first suggestion for a name for the new flag, but I'd be flexible about that if you don't like it.

-- 
Henryk Pl
Comment 1 Henryk Plötz 2006-07-16 12:11:41 UTC
Moin,

I recently let it do some updates (emerge -u gnome in this case) only to discover, when I came backe, that it aborted at package 17 of 106 because some package (openldap in this case) couldn't manage to update on its own. I appreciate that it might be hard to write something that even remotely resembles a database and doesn't get totally devastated at the sight of a potential update, but packages like these completely spoil the fun, by making it impossible to bulk-update a system while doing something completely different (e.g.: sleeping).

I therefore suggest that a new flag be introduced, similarly to the already existing fetch-restriction which marks packages that need their sources downloaded manually, to mark theses 'whiny'[1] packages that can't get an update done without a human holding their hand. Clear candidates for this flag would be net-nds/openldap and dev-db/mysql and any other package that has the moral equivalent of if [[ -d "${ROOT}/${DATADIR}" ]] ; then die "Database already exists" ; done.

These packages should then be marked clearly in the emerge -au output, so that I can manually update them, before going to sleep and letting it bulk-update the rest of the packages.

[1] This is a first suggestion for a name for the new flag, but I'd be flexible about that if you don't like it.

-- 
Henryk Plötz
Grüße aus Berlin
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-07-16 12:16:50 UTC
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86209 ***