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

[Pierre Schmitz]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:51:46 -0600, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>> 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. :)

Everybody seems to hate mailman. Andy is updating the package right
now. So if this is the last message you read you'll know who is to
blame. Thomas also had this weird idea of making a backup before.

> 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.

Thomas suggested something about 12 UTC. That might be quite early for
you :-). Would a simple -Syu break django or could you do your cleanups
afterwards?

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre