[arch-dev-public] Updating packages on our servers

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to update our servers this weekend. Does anybody want to join?
> Especially the python -> pathon2 transition scares me so I am in need of
> someone familiar with python and the custom scripts we use (our django
> website, repo-read etc.)
>
> I'll list the packages to be upgraded on each server so please have a
> look and tell me if you'd expect any other problems. Maybe someone wants
> to update the xen kernel stuff while we are at it. At least the openssl
> update is security related.

The scariest thing on that list for me is mailman. :)

With that said, I should be around and can help at some point, namely
with the python website/database/etc stuff you mentioned; I can do
some cleanup at that time as well as this stuff is now virtualenv-ed
and we don't necessarily need to install all of the packages on the
server.

-Dan