From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ERPok-0003fH-Du for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:53:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9H7p3oG030703; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:51:03 GMT Received: from windmuehlgasse.getdesigned.at (chello062178000135.1.11.univie.teleweb.at [62.178.0.135]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9H7p2Wm027437 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:51:03 GMT Received: (qmail 11891 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2005 09:54:49 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.5?) (192.168.1.5) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 17 Oct 2005 09:54:49 +0200 Message-ID: <435358A2.5090607@getdesigned.at> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:54:10 +0200 From: Sebastian Redl User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20051014) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Errors when doing an emerge -uD world References: <16415.202.175.143.143.1129511662.squirrel@localhost> <200510170323.26637.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <43531195.6080802@mn.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <43531195.6080802@mn.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e101b7c8-97f9-421b-990f-695d2139acec X-Archives-Hash: 8c7e2a96a030e3a975e823f512b42dfe John C. Shimek wrote: > I think the biggest problem, I could be wrong thoug, is that usually > when packages get remasked like that and upgrades go backwards, it is > a security problem. And even that seems to be uncommon. I have not > ever seen one of my packages go backwards but I could have missed one > or two. In the other direction, the biggest problem is when you explicitely unmask a specific version (echo "=dev-db/mysql-5.0.9-alpha ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords) and then there's a minor upgrade (=dev-db/mysql-5.0.9-beta), and the version you unmasked is thrown out. Doing a blind -uD will downgrade to the latest stable version in that case. Of course, the answer here is to use -p and unmask the new versions before proceeding. And you can mask the old ones to guard yourself against accidental downgrading. (echo "> /etc/portage/package.mask) Sebastian Redl -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list