[clue-tech] yum / apt update minimum age

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Fri Aug 28 20:39:59 MDT 2009


David L. Willson wrote:
> Here's my objective:  I want to deploy every package that's been
> available and newest for a week.  My hope is that by doing so, I will
> avoid those rare times that a bugged patch gets uploaded, breaks
> everything, and then a new, good patch goes up the next day.

In Debian that's called "testing".  stable doesn't get bugged patches.

You can ask about getting support for that added to the Packages file 
(it currently doesn't know anything about dates).

But that seems like an odd problem to have.  Do you have examples?

Dave


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