Re: Void-Stable?

[Kevin Berry <deat...@gmail.com>]

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I'd definitely like this sort of thing.  I love Void as a distro, but I 
can't sanely use a rolling release distribution for my production servers 
without some kind of safe upgrade path, similar to how Ubuntu snapshots 
every 6 months.  Ideally, support short exist for security updates for a 
year from a patch level, me thinks.

On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 6:16:05 PM UTC-5, bougyman wrote:
>
>
>   With the existence of the void daily package archive, I've been bouncing 
> around an idea about how someone (some admin/architect/enterprise) could 
> maintain
> their own 'stable' release cycle of void. If upon initial configuration 
> the repos are set to an archive with a date stamp, and the user has a way 
> to validate that moving
> from that datestamp to ### future datestamp doesn't (potentially) break 
> any functionality, they can safely choose an upgrade path. for instance.
>
> I install on 2015-03-26 and lock the repository to the archive snapshot of 
> that date
>
> on 2015-04-26 I run *magic-command* and ask if upgrading to current 
> (2015-04-26) would (potentially) break any installed packages.
>
> I get output about any important breaking changes (to xbps, etc) which may 
> require an 'upgrade this first' action or 'remove these' actions.
> I get output that may just say: 'Upgrade to 2015-04-01 first, then to 
> 2015-04-15, then 2015-04-26' (or does this automagically?)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> bougy
>

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