mysql-server

[Alan M. Evans]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 12:49, Pettit, Paul wrote:
> Hmmm, covered this, but again that is a manual fix. The problem is when
> you want to do updates automaticaly but in doing so updates come out at
> times when there is no support ready (on holiday/vacation/etc) for
> undocumented problems.

Why is nobody suggesting the obvious solution?

If you don't want automatic updates during certain periods, just disable
auto-updating before said period, and re-enable after. This way, nobody
maintaining packages needs to worry about what may or may not be a
holiday for any particular client.

Surely this can be easily scripted so all auto-updating machines cease
updating for the intended period (weekend, holiday, vacation, etc.)
Worst case: admin needs to run a "stop-updating" script before leaving,
and executes a "resume-updating" script when returning.

-- 
Alan M. Evans <ame1 at extratech.com>