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From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall
Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41
Cygwin-specific expertise, and move on. The worst experiences, in my
opinion, are like this one, that seem to come down to a broken mirror:
our mirror rsyncing to it and breaking, and then people updating or
installing from our broken mirror, and getting into states like my PC
is in now.
I don't think it's a sensible policy to be permanently chasing the
bleeding-edge of development in a production environment. I think you
should set up your mirror with known good and stable versions of the
tools you need in your environment and then freeze it, and only update
parts of it as and when specifically needed and after testing and
change control. IOW, I think this problem is better solved by
development methodology and management techniques than by a shell
script.